Great moments in TV with medical images/scanners! #12

This week, I have a great video for you. In the last episode of Modern Family, Claire goes to the hospital to make a check-up cardiac angiography. I was surprised that she stayed in a hospital bed before and after the procedure, so I googled a bit about it. Then, I come across the best angiography video ever! In "The exorcist" (1973), a angiography is performed to Reagen (the main actress) because she is acting "strange". The scene was considered by the director to be the most disturbing one from the whole movie and the medical team there is a real one! However, the procedure is not a real one... (and it is a cerebral angiography).


And the making of:

Time-of-Flight PET vs. MRA

Every time I hear Time-of-Flight TOF, I get confused because it can actually mean TOF PET or TOF MRA. The two acronyms have the some words: Time Of Flight, but have different meanings. 

TOF PET - This PET technology means that the time difference between two photons detected as a coincidence will be used to estimate the actual place of positron annihilation.

TOF MRA - This Magnetic Resonance angiography technique means that a sequence with small time of repetition TR will be used to saturate the stationary nucleus, while the flowing nucleus with Time-Of-Flight will be maximal. 

Both techniques produce beautiful images:



More information on TOF-PET:
http://miil.stanford.edu/research/tofdetector.html

More information on TOF-MRA: 
http://www.imaios.com/en/e-Courses/e-MRI/MR-Angiography-Flow-imaging/time-of-flight-mra