Toes - Special - Video Lesson

In this view, we will be demonstrating the tangential sesamoid view. The tangential sesamoid view should be performed with the patient seated or lying on the radiographic table. With the image receptor placed tabletop, a forty inch source to image distance and no tube angulation. This is a special view to show the, sesamoid bones that are, beneath the head of the first metatarsal their possible fractures. So we're gonna get the patient to assist us with this. She is seated on the table. We have dorsal flex her foot, but we're gonna get a little more help with flexing her foot. So we're gonna hold this. We're gonna pull this around where she can pull and pull her foot back towards her. We're gonna use a perpendicular, central right at forty inches, and we're centering right to the first