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

ASCII

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

AE

  Application Entity

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

CEN/TC/251

  Comite Europeen de Normalisation - Technical Committee 251 - Medical Informatics

DICOM

  Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

FSC

  File-set Creator

FSR

  File-set Reader

FSU

  File-set Updater

HL7

  Health Level 7

HTML

  Hypertext Transfer Markup Language

IEEE

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

ISO

  International Standards Organization

ID

  Identifier

IOD

  Information Object Definition

JIRA

  Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association

MIME

  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

NEMA

  National Electrical Manufacturers Association

OSI

  Open Systems Interconnection

SOP

  Service-Object Pair

TCP/IP

  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UID

  Unique Identifier

VR

  Value Representation

XML

  Extensible Markup Language

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