The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this Standard.
American College of Radiology
Application Entity
American National Standards Institute
Comite Europeen de Normalisation - Technical Committee 251 - Healthcare Informatics
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
Healthcare Information Standards Planning Panel
Healthcare Industry Level 7 Interface Standards
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Information Object Definition
International Standards Organization
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association
Moving Picture Experts Group
Healthcare Message Standard Developers Sub-Committee
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Open Systems Interconnection
Run Length Encoding
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Unique Identifier
Service-Object Pair
Coordinated Universal Time
Uniform Resource Identifier/Locator
Value Multiplicity
Value Representation