They are doing aortic and other vascular imagining techniques at our local hosptial (Lahey -- one I wouldn't trust or really want to step foot inside), and one of my associates at the gym where I work had mentioned in passing that he was doing them. (I don't know him that well, or see him that often, or know what exactly he's studying to be, just that he's "now" doing this procedure).

A while back he had these cards on our front desk where they were offering three different types of vascular imaging (non invasive). One was for head and neck, one was for heart, abdomen and aorta, and one was, I believe, full body.

These were not the "full body scans" but they were very specifically isolated, along the lines of echos or ultrasounds, took around 30 minutes to do.

They were, supposedly, diagnostic in nature and were advanced enough to detect problems even if you were still asymptomatic and even if your blood work came back negative.

Again, if you really wanted to try and make sure, you'd have to do so many different tests it's not even funny. They can do, as was mentioned, a catheter (and there are two ways to do that, as well, one of which involves a much much longer healing time and an overnight stay in the hospital).

But to even do the agiogram you have to go through a series of other tests FIRST before you are "permitted" to get one. (I just love the way the insurance does this to people -- it's so illogical).