Modality guide
Interventional review is planning and follow-up, not the procedure
Imaging around a minimally invasive procedure is read before it to plan and after it to see what changed, and the reader has to know which of those two jobs is in front of them. The procedure itself belongs to the team at the bedside. This guide covers how that review fits a facility workflow.
At a glance
What a facility should define
- Depends on the modality and procedure
- Educational workflow guide only: inclusion does not establish that DLA Imaging currently interprets Interventional imaging.
- No modality-specific turnaround commitment is published; any service level exists only in a signed facility agreement.
What does Interventional imaging show?
Imaging used to plan, guide, or follow minimally invasive procedures
What a given study can answer depends on the protocol, the body region, whether the comparison studies came with it, and the clinical context the ordering team supplies. A study that arrives without that record narrows the question before anyone opens it.
Which reading area may be involved?
Interventional radiology with supporting body, vascular, musculoskeletal, or other expertise as appropriate
Routing is not decided by the modality name. A study of the head and a study of the abdomen do not go to the same place even when the order says the same thing. Anatomy, the clinical question, urgency, who is eligible to read for that facility, and the contracted scope all sit in front of the assignment.
What should a facility define?
Define protocols, required clinical context, prior-study access, urgency labels, report destinations, critical-result contacts, and downtime routing before go-live.
Typical examination context includes Procedure planning, image guidance, vascular and nonvascular follow-up, and clinician-selected questions. Those examples are educational, not ordering advice; the ordering clinician chooses the study and protocol.
State whether a study is preprocedure planning or postprocedure follow-up when it is sent, and make the operative or procedure note available to the reader, since a device, drain, or access site described nowhere in the record turns into an unexplained finding.
How long does the examination or report take?
Procedure and review time vary.
Acquisition time and reporting time are two different clocks, and two different parties hold them. A facility that wants a reporting commitment should define the event that starts the clock, the event that stops it, and what happens when a study arrives incomplete. This page publishes no numerical commitment.
FAQ
Common questions
What is Interventional radiology imaging review?
Imaging used to plan, guide, or follow minimally invasive procedures
Does it use radiation?
Depends on the modality and procedure
How long does the exam take?
Procedure and review time vary
Who decides whether this is the right exam?
The ordering clinician selects the exam and protocol in the patient’s clinical context.
Can images be uploaded here?
No. The public site does not receive images, orders, reports, or patient information.
How are prior studies handled?
Authorized priors should follow the facility’s approved comparison workflow.
Is a turnaround time guaranteed?
Only a signed service agreement can define a turnaround commitment; this page does not.
Where does the report go?
It returns through the delivery route established with the facility and ordering care team.
Where DLA Imaging provides reading services under a facility agreement, reports return through the ordering care team’s established workflow. This website does not provide medical advice, diagnoses, or emergency services.