Whole-body nuclear scanning is a medical imaging technique where the whole body is scanned, contrary to, e.g., neuroimaging where only the brain is scanned.
Whole-body nuclear scanning may refer to several different modalities: Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, also known more commonly as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) But normally it would probably refer to a nuclear medicine tomographic imaging technique such as: Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) Positron emission tomography (PET)