
the foot and ankle are ct scanned for several reasons. It shows great soft tissue and swelling, gout, fractures, fluid, helps physicians with injections, etc. the bones in the foot are small and ct shows better detail than xray in some cases. MRI may give better detail yet depending on what the physician is looking for.3D reconstructions can be veru helpful with factures and locations. Here is an image found at www.imaging.consult.com of a talar neck frature. It is a sagital view.