The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this Part.
American College of Radiology
Association Control Service Element
Application Entity
American National Standards Institute
Application Profile
Application Programming Interface
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Comite Europeen de Normalisation-Technical Committee 251-Medical Informatics
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DICOM Message Service Element
DICOM Message Service Element-Composite
DICOM Message Service Element-Normalized
File-set Creator
File-set Reader
File-set Updater
Healthcare Informatics Standards Planning Panel
Health Level 7
Information Entity
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Information Object Definition
International Standards Organization
International Standardized Profile
Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association
Healthcare Message Standard Developers Sub-Committee
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Open Systems Interconnection
Protocol Data Unit
Representational State Transfer
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)
Real-World Activity
Service Class Provider
Service Class User
Service-Object Pair
STore Over the Web by RESTful Services
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Unique Identifier
Unified Modeling Language
Web Access to DICOM Objects by RESTful Services
Web Access to DICOM Objects by URI
Web Access to DICOM Objects by Web Services (WS*)