"The lateral hand view is an orthogonal view taken along with the PA view of the hand."
"hand is externally rotated by 90 degrees from the PA position so that the palm is perpendicular to the image receptor"
"SID100 cm"
"centring pointover the head of the second metacarpal"
"collimation"
"orientation portrait"
"detector size18 cm x 24 cm"
"exposure"
"SID100 cm"
"gridno"
"orientation portrait"
"Lower kVp is used to detect foreign body in the soft tissue; to help identify the region of interest, a radiopaque marker can be placed at cutaneous wound"