1 Scope and Field of Application
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# 1 Scope and Field of Application

This Part of the DICOM Standard specifies the set of Service Class Definitions that provide an abstract definition of real-world activities applicable to communication of digital medical information. For each Service Class Definition, this Part specifies:

- the semantic description of the activities of the Service Class Definition

- the group of DIMSE Service operations and notifications applicable to the Service Class Description

- one or more functionally-related Service-Object Pair (SOP) Classes that are supported by the Service Class Definition and may be performed between peer DICOM Application Entities

- the relationship of each Service-Object Pair (SOP) Classes to applicable Information Object Definitions specified in PS3.3.

For each Service Class Definition, this Part does not specify:

- any necessary information for the semantic description of the IOD

- relationships to associated real-world objects relevant to the IOD

- Attributes that describe the characteristics of the IOD

This Part is related to other parts of the DICOM Standard in that:

- PS3.3 Information Object Definitions specifies the set of Information Object Definitions to which the services defined in this Part may be applied

- PS3.5 Data Structure and Semantics defines the data encoding used in the DIMSE Protocol when applied to IODs defined in this Part

- PS3.6 Data Dictionary contains an index by Tag of all IOD Attributes defined in this Part. This index includes the Value Representation and Value Multiplicity for each Attribute

- PS3.7 Message Exchange Protocol defines the DIMSE Services and Protocol that may be applied to IODs defined in this Part.

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