Toes: Radiographic Anatomy - Video Lesson

Hey, everybody. Welcome to today's lesson on radiographic anatomy, demonstrated on routine projections of the toes. In a previous lesson, we discussed the anatomy of the toes and which radiographic projections are routinely performed. So let's tie that information to the radiographs themselves. As a reminder, the routine radiographic projections of the toes are apiaxial, apia oblique, and lateral. Take a look at this radiograph. What projection is being demonstrated? How do you know? Let's find out the answers to these questions. If you said this radiograph is an AP axial projection of the toes, you're correct. We can tell this is an AP axial by the concave phalangeal shafts. Equal amounts of soft tissue appearing on each side of the phalanges, and open IP and MTP joint spaces. If this were an AP projection without central ray angulation, the IP and MTP joint spaces would be closed. AP axial toes radiographs can be