4 Symbols and Abbreviations
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# 4 Symbols and Abbreviations

The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this part of the Standard.

ACR

  American College of Radiology

ACSE

  Association Control Service Element

ASCII

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AE

  Application Entity

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

CEN TC251

  Comite Europeen de Normalisation - Technical Committee 251 - Medical Informatics

CMIS

  Common Management Information Service

CMISE

  Common Management Information Service Element

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

HL7

  Health Level 7

IEEE

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ISO

  International Standards Organization

JIRA

  Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association

NEMA

  National Electrical Manufacturers Association

OSI

  Open Systems Interconnection

PDU

  Protocol Data Unit

PDV

  Protocol Data Value

SOP

  Service-Object Pair

TCP/IP

  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

VM

  Value Multiplicity

VR

  Value Representation

UID

  Unique Identifier

UL

  Upper Layers

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