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.

ACC

  American College of Cardiology

ACR

  American College of Radiology

AP

  Application Profile

ASCII

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AE

  Application Entity

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

BD

  Blu-ray Disc™ (that is a trademark of Blu-ray Disc™ Association)

CEN TC 251

  Comite Europeen de Normalisation - Technical Committee 251 - Medical Informatics

CF

  CompactFlash card

DICOM

  Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DVD

  A trademark of the DVD Forum that is not an abbreviation

FSC

  File-set Creator

FSR

  File-set Reader

FSU

  File-set Updater

HL7

  Health Level 7

IEEE

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF

  Internet Engineering Taskforce

IS&C

  Image Save and Carry

ISO

  International Standards Organization

ID

  Identifier

IOD

  Information Object Definition

JIRA

  Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association

MIME

  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension

MMC

  Multimedia Card

NEMA

  National Electrical Manufacturers Association

OSI

  Open Systems Interconnection

RFC

  Request for Comments

SD

  Secure Digital card

SMTP

  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SOP

  Service-Object Pair

TCP/IP

  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UDF

  Universal Disk Format

UID

  Unique Identifier

USB

  Universal Serial Bus

VR

  Value Representation

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