4 Symbols and Abbreviations
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# 4 Symbols and Abbreviations

The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this Part.

ACR

  American College of Radiology

ACSE

  Association Control Service Element

AE

  Application Entity

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

AP

  Application Profile

API

  Application Programming Interface

ASCII

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CEN TC251

  Comite Europeen de Normalisation-Technical Committee 251-Medical Informatics

DICOM

  Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DIMSE

  DICOM Message Service Element

DIMSE-C

  DICOM Message Service Element-Composite

DIMSE-N

  DICOM Message Service Element-Normalized

FSC

  File-set Creator

FSR

  File-set Reader

FSU

  File-set Updater

HISPP

  Healthcare Informatics Standards Planning Panel

HL7

  Health Level 7

IE

  Information Entity

IEEE

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IOD

  Information Object Definition

ISO

  International Standards Organization

ISP

  International Standardized Profile

JIRA

  Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association

MSDS

  Healthcare Message Standard Developers Sub-Committee

NEMA

  National Electrical Manufacturers Association

OSI

  Open Systems Interconnection

PDU

  Protocol Data Unit

REST

  Representational State Transfer

RESTful

  A RESTful Web service is a Web service implemented using REST architecture and HTTP (see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf)

RWA

  Real-World Activity

SCP

  Service Class Provider

SCU

  Service Class User

SOP

  Service-Object Pair

STOW-RS

  STore Over the Web by RESTful Services

TCP/IP

  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UID

  Unique Identifier

UML

  Unified Modeling Language

WADO-RS

  Web Access to DICOM Objects by RESTful Services

WADO-URI

  Web Access to DICOM Objects by URI

WADO-WS

  Web Access to DICOM Objects by Web Services (WS*)

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