4 Symbols and Abbreviations
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# 4 Symbols and Abbreviations

ACSE

  Association Control Service Element

CT

  Computed Tomography

DICOM

  Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

HIS

  Hospital Information System

JIRA

  Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association

OSI

  Open Systems Interconnection

PACS

  Picture Archiving and Communication Systems

REST

  Representational State Transfer

RESTful

  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)

RIS

  Radiology Information System

STOW-RS

  STore Over the Web by RESTful Services

TCP/IP

  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

WADO-RS

  Web Access to DICOM Objects by RESTful Services

WADO-URI

  Web Access to DICOM Objects by URI

WADO-WS

  Web Access to DICOM Objects by Web Services (WS*)

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