--- title: I didn't build a Full Body Ultrasound... but I know the... description: A hardware engineer documents a visit to Midy, a research lab building a full-body ultrasound scanner using 40 off-the-shelf Butterfly Network probes arranged... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-didn-t-build-a-full-body-ultrasound-but-i-know-the-people-that-did-fvdbzdoqi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I didn't build a Full Body Ultrasound... but I know the people that did | daily.dev og:description: A hardware engineer documents a visit to Midy, a research lab building a full-body ultrasound scanner using 40 off-the-shelf Butterfly Network probes arranged... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-didn-t-build-a-full-body-ultrasound-but-i-know-the-people-that-did-fvdbzdoqi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FVDBZDOqi.png og:image:alt: I didn't build a Full Body Ultrasound... but I know the people that did og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I didn't build a Full Body Ultrasound... but I know the people that did **[Marcin Plaza](https://daily.dev/sources/marcinplaza)** · 18 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A hardware engineer documents a visit to Midy, a research lab building a full-body ultrasound scanner using 40 off-the-shelf Butterfly Network probes arranged in a ring around a water tank. The system works by firing ultrasound waves from multiple angles simultaneously, collecting terabytes of data per second, and reconstructing a 3D image of the body's interior without radiation. The post covers the engineering challenges (waterproofing, calibration, compression algorithms, speed-of-sound tuning), the team behind it, the FDA regulatory path (Class 2 device, body composition classification), and the roadmap toward Gen 2 and Gen 3 scanners with custom silicon. The goal is not to replace MRI but to create a cheap, accessible, radiation-free imaging tool that could enable longitudinal health studies at scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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