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内容总结：

AI图像公司Midjourney跨界造医疗“水疗扫描仪”：60秒全身成像，计划开遍全球水疗馆

以文本生成图像闻名的AI公司Midjourney日前宣布了一项令人意外的跨界计划：推出首款硬件产品——全身超声扫描仪，并配套建设专门的水疗中心，供用户体验扫描服务。

该公司在官方博客中坦言，这一项目与以往业务毫无关联，但公司正在思考“如何与众不同”以及“未来想成为什么”。其答案是成立医疗部门Midjourney Medical，而扫描仪正是首款硬件产品。公司表示：“我们梦想拥有像核磁共振（MRI）一样强大、又像去水疗一样随意的体验，今天我们揭开了实现这一目标的路径。”

根据介绍，用户只需站上一个平台，扫描仪会以每秒2英寸的速度将用户浸入水中。身体穿过一个由50万个沙粒大小的方块组成的圆环，每个方块都能发射超声波并记录身体反弹回的波纹。公司将其比作利用回声定位的海豚，称扫描过程如同被50万只微型海豚从四面八方环绕。扫描结果是一张“达到亚毫米精度的人体3D地图”，外观类似今天的核磁共振影像，但速度提升了近百倍——全程不到60秒，而传统全身核磁共振通常需要60至90分钟。

据Crypto Briefing报道，Midjourney正与手持超声设备制造商Butterfly Network合作。双方于2025年11月签署授权协议，Midjourney获得了其芯片超声技术的独家使用权。该项目由Midjourney消费硬件负责人艾哈迈德·阿巴斯主导，他曾在苹果公司参与Vision Pro项目，于2023年底加入。

未来12个月内，Midjourney将优化算法与扫描仪，开展研究试验，并设计第二代硬件。计划明年在旧金山开设首家配备扫描仪的水疗中心，随后争取获得美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的诊断能力批准。2028年，公司希望将业务扩展至更多城市，并推出采用定制芯片的第三代机器，大幅提升图像质量——届时，扫描仪将具备与标准核磁共振竞争的实力。

Midjourney的长期目标是到2031年在全球部署5万台扫描仪。公司表示：“我们认为，只要未来有足够的早期影像数据，全世界就有可能避免30%的死亡和50%的医疗费用。”

中文翻译：

Midjourney，这款AI图像生成器，正在研发一款全身超声波扫描仪，并同步建设可进行身体扫描的水疗中心。
以根据文字提示生成图像的AI程序闻名的Midjourney，近日公布了其新项目：一台仅需60秒就能完成全身扫描的医疗设备。这一项目与其原有业务相去甚远，以至于我们不得不核实日期，确认今天并非4月1日。但这不是愚人节玩笑：Midjourney扫描仪真实存在，公司甚至正在建设配备该设备的水疗中心，供人们体验扫描服务。
在公告中，Midjourney承认该项目与其以往业务毫无关联。但公司目前正反思“我们想如何与众不同？”以及“我们想成为什么？”。显然，他们的答案是推出Midjourney Medical，并以扫描仪作为首款硬件产品。“我们梦想着能拥有像核磁共振仪那样强大，却又像去水疗馆般随意的设备——今天，我们正将这条路径公之于众。”公司在博文中写道。
当用户站上平台后，Midjourney扫描仪会以每秒2英寸的速度将其浸入水中。人体需穿过一个由50万个沙粒大小的方块组成的环形装置——每个方块都能发射超声波，并记录从人体反射回传的涟漪信号。
公司将这些方块比作运用回声定位的海豚，因此接受扫描就像被50万只微型海豚从四面八方包围。扫描结果将生成“精度达毫米级以下的人体3D图像，外观与如今的核磁共振影像极为相似，但速度提升近百倍”。Midjourney的目标是将扫描时间控制在60秒内，这仅是全身核磁共振常规耗时（60至90分钟）的极小一部分。
据Crypto Briefing报道，Midjourney正与手持超声设备制造商Butterfly Network联合开发该设备。2025年11月，双方签署许可协议，获得其超声芯片技术的独家使用权。该项目由Midjourney消费硬件项目负责人Ahmad Abbas主导——他曾参与苹果Vision Pro研发，并于2023年底加入公司。
未来12个月内，Midjourney将优化算法与扫描仪，开展研究试验，并推进第二代硬件设计。计划明年在旧金山开设首家配备扫描仪的水疗中心。下一步是争取FDA批准该设备的诊断功能。2028年，Midjourney希望将业务扩展至更多城市，并推出采用定制芯片、可大幅提升图像质量的第三代设备。公司表示，届时“真正的较量”才将开始——或许指扫描仪与标准核磁共振设备的竞争。
Midjourney的雄心是到2031年在全球部署5万台扫描仪。“我们坚信，未来若普及早期影像筛查，全球可避免30%的死亡，并削减50%的医疗开支。”公司表示。

英文来源：

Midjourney, the AI image generator, is developing a full-body ultrasonic scanner
And it's building spas where you can get your body scanned.
Midjourney, known for its AI program that can generate images from text prompts, has announced its new project: A medical machine that can scan your whole body in just 60 seconds. It's so far removed from what Midjourney is known for that we had to check the date and make sure it wasn't April 1st. Well, it's not April Fools: The Midjourney Scanner is real, and the company is even building spas where you can find the machines and get scanned.
In its announcement, Midjourney admitted that the project is not related to anything we've seen from the company so far. However, it's at the point where it's asking itself "How do we want to be different?" and "What do we want to become?" Its answer to those questions, apparently, is to launch Midjourney Medical, with the Scanner being its first hardware product. "We've dreamed of something as powerful as MRI, and as casual as a trip to the spa, and we're unveiling a path to that – today," it wrote in its blog post.
After you step on a platform, Midjourney's scanner will submerge you in water at a rate of 2 inches per second. Your body passes through a ring made of half a million squares the size of a grain of sand, with each one of them capable of emitting ultrasonic waves and of recording the ripples that bounce off your body and back to it.
The company compares them to dolphins that use echolocation, so going through a scan is like being surrounded by half a million tiny dolphins from every angle. It says the result of the scan is a "3D map of your body, down to a fraction of a millimeter, that looks a lot like today's MRIs but at nearly a hundred times the speed." Midjourney's goal is for the scan to take less than 60 seconds, a tiny fraction of the 60 to 90 minutes it typically takes to do a full-body MRI.
As Crypto Briefing notes, the company is developing the machine with handheld ultrasound device maker Butterfly Network. Midjourney signed a licensing agreement with Butterfly Network in November 2025, securing exclusive rights to its ultrasound-on-chip technology. The project is led by Ahmad Abbas, Midjourney's head of consumer hardware projects, who joined the company in late 2023 after working on the Vision Pro at Apple.
Over the next 12 months, Midjourney will be fine-tuning its algorithms and the Scanner, doing research trials and working on a second-generation hardware design. It plans to open its first Spa housing Scanners in San Francisco sometime next year. The next step is to get the machine's diagnostic capabilities approved by the FDA. In 2028, Midjourney hopes to expand to more cities and launch its third-generation machine that will use custom silicon to enable much better image quality. It says that's when things will get "serious," perhaps in relation to how the Scanner can compete with standard MRIs.
Midjourney's ambition is to have 50,000 Scanners available worldwide by 2031. "We think it's completely possible that with enough early imaging in the future, the world could avoid 30 percent of all deaths and 50 percent of all healthcare costs," the company said.