Foot - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the AP axial foot. The AP axial foot should be performed with the patient seated or lying on the radiographic table. With the image receptor placed table pop, a forty inch source to image distance, and a ten degree tube angulation towards the heel. So I have my patient on the table. I have the IR on the table. I have shield at my patient. Her foot is placed down the long axis of the IR. So we're adding a ten degree cephalic angle centered to the third metatarsal. The ten degree angle is for the purpose of being perpendicular through the metatarsal joint space. Let me just get your foot forward just a little bit. I'm gonna open this collimation up. So an inch on either side, making sure you