Interventional radiology (IR) is a specialty that uses imaging guidance to perform minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, where small incisions or access points (like the wrist) are used to navigate instruments inside the body to perform treatments are used to navigate instruments inside the body to perform treatments. The Interventional procedures, such as angioplasty, stenting, biopsies, and embolization, are guided by techniques like X-ray, CT, MRI, and ultrasound. This helps to treat a wide range of conditions with the advantages of less pain, risk, and recovery time than traditional surgery. Also results in shorter hospital stays.

IR combines medical imaging to see inside the body and perform procedures, making it a less invasive as an alternate to surgical alternative.