Whole-body MRI
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Liver & metabolic - Cancer screening
- Brain & spine
- Bones & body composition
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Heart & circulation - Hormones & nutrition
What scans can find
Find it early. Find it on purpose.
A modern preventive assessment is not a hunt for everything. It is a structured, plain-English look at the few things that matter — the heart, the liver, the brain, the major organs — read together, by the same team, in a single morning.
Why we scan
What scanning actually does.
Most preventable disease starts on a scan before it starts on you. The disc that will pinch a nerve in a year is already visible. The fatty liver that will become metabolic disease in five is already measurable. Catch it now and you keep your choices open — surgery becomes optional, medication becomes targeted, the conversation stops being about damage control.
Bloods tell you how the engine is running. Imaging tells you what the engine looks like. Neither, on its own, is enough. A normal blood panel can sit beside an early lesion that only an MRI sees; a clean scan can sit beside a hormone shift that only the bloods catch. At Checkpoint the two are read together, by the same consultant, on the same morning.
No screen finds everything. Some cancers are too small to see today. Some diseases are decided by genes you have not measured yet. The honest job of preventive imaging is to find what is findable now — and to tell you, plainly, what we did not look at and why.
By body system
Six places we look. One morning.
The body does not split into scan modalities. The heart is read with a CT, a blood panel and a stress test together; the liver with imaging and bloods; cancer screening reaches across half a dozen organs at once. Six places we look — each with the scans that contribute.
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Heart
Heart & circulation
Coronary calcium and structural cardiac CT show the arteries themselves. An ECG and a stress test show how the heart behaves under load. Bloods catch the lipids and inflammatory markers that ride underneath — most preventable cardiac disease shows up here years before symptoms.
Contributing scans
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Liver & metabolic
Liver, fat & metabolism
Fatty liver is the most common chronic liver disease in the UK, and it is silent until it is advanced. FibroScan reads stiffness and fat fraction in ten minutes; Perspectum adds multi-organ MRI analysis; bloods catch the insulin and thyroid drift that often sits alongside.
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Cancer screening
Soft tissue & organ change
Whole-body MRI sweeps brain, abdomen, pelvis and major vessels for soft-tissue masses and organ lesions in a single radiation-free study. Mammogram, prostate MRI and endoscopy step in where the imaging would otherwise miss — breast, prostate and the GI lining.
Contributing scans
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Brain & spine
Brain, spine & nerves
A whole-body MRI reads cortex, white matter, ventricles and vasculature for silent strokes and early atrophy patterns, and screens cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine in the same continuous scan. The neurological exam at the start of the day puts a clinical floor under the imaging.
Contributing scans
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Hormones & nutrition
Hormones, vitamins & inflammation
Thyroid, sex hormones, vitamin D, B12, iron and the inflammatory panel all sit inside the advanced bloods. Most NHS GPs cannot order the full set, and the parts they can order are rarely read together. Here they are read in one sitting, by your consultant, alongside the imaging.
Contributing scans
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Bones & body composition
Bone density & body composition
DEXA-grade body composition measures lean mass, fat mass and bone density — the same numbers a sports physician would track. FibroScan adds a visceral-fat fraction on top. Together they replace the bathroom scale with a number you can act on.
Contributing scans
Body compositionFibroScan
At a glance
Which scan finds what.
A primary contributor — the modality the consultants reach for first. Plain ticks, no rankings. Whole-body MRI is the most cross-cutting scan in preventive screening, which is why most assessments are built around it.
Cardiac CT
- Heart & circulation
- Liver & metabolic
- Cancer screening
- Brain & spine
- Hormones & nutrition
- Bones & body composition
FibroScan
- Liver & metabolic
- Bones & body composition
- Heart & circulation
- Cancer screening
- Brain & spine
- Hormones & nutrition
Pathology
- Heart & circulation
- Liver & metabolic
- Hormones & nutrition
- Cancer screening
- Brain & spine
- Bones & body composition
Prostate MRI
- Cancer screening
- Heart & circulation
- Liver & metabolic
- Brain & spine
- Hormones & nutrition
- Bones & body composition
Honest limits
No screen finds everything.
A good preventive assessment is honest about what it does not see. Three places where a scan, on its own, will not be enough.
Microscopic and pre-symptomatic disease
Some cancers and infections only show on tissue, not on images. Bloods catch some, not all. We will tell you what a scan would and would not have seen.
Mental health and lifestyle drivers
A scan will not read sleep, stress or alcohol. We ask, you tell us, and the consultation does the rest — the numbers sit better against an honest account of the year.
Genetic risk before it manifests
Imaging finds today’s structure. For tomorrow’s risk — a BRCA carrier, a Lynch family — we refer for genomic testing as an add-on.
Questions
What people ask before they scan.
Cannot find what you need? Email hello@check-point.health and a real person will reply the same day.
If I only book one scan, which one finds the most?
Whole-body MRI — it sweeps brain, spine, abdomen, pelvis and the major vessels in a single radiation-free study. It is the highest-yield single scan in preventive screening, which is why it sits inside the Comprehensive and Executive packages by default.
Do these scans use radiation?
MRI uses no ionising radiation — it can be repeated year on year without cumulative risk. Cardiac CT uses a low dose, comparable to a few months of natural background radiation, and the calcium score is one of the most predictive single tests in cardiology. Bloods, ECG, FibroScan and ultrasound use no radiation at all.
How early is ‘early’ — what stage of disease do they actually catch?
Often years before symptoms. A fatty liver is measurable on FibroScan a decade before liver enzymes drift. Coronary calcium shows up on CT before the first chest pain. Whole-body MRI finds organ lesions at a size where the surgical or medical answer is still the easy one.
Can I add a scan to a Pathology-only visit?
Yes — every scan is available on its own or layered into a Pathology assessment. Tell us what you are worried about when you enquire and a consultant will recommend the smallest set of scans that answers the question.
What if a scan finds something — what happens next?
Your consultant sits with you, in plain English, before the written report is closed. Most findings need nothing more than a watch-and-repeat. Where onward investigation is needed, we refer to the right specialist directly — same team, no cold handover.
Ready to book
Enquire and a consultant will be in touch within one working day.
Tell us where the questions sit — the heart, the liver, the family history, the year you have ahead — and a consultant will recommend the smallest set of scans that answers them. We reply the same day.