Ankle - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the AP ankle The AP ankle should be performed with the patient's seated or lying on the radiographic table. With the image receptor placed tabletop, a forty inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. The central right where the ankle is always in between the malleolus, right on top in between. We're gonna hold her foot in a dorsey flex position, we're gonna center right here and center to the IR. Our collimation should be an inch on either side. And two to three inches beyond the joint space. Patient will hold very still. And the exposure is taken. A diagnostic AP ankle radiograph must be free of motion and rotation.