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

ASCII

  American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

API

  Application Programming Interface

BCID

  Baseline Context Group Identifier

CID

  Context ID

DCID

  Defined Context Group Identifier

DCMR

  DICOM Content Mapping Resource

DICOM

  Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

DSDL

  Document Schema Definition Languages

IEC

  International Electrotechnical Commission

IOD

  Information Object Definition

IANA

  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

ISO

  International Standards Organization

LUT

  Lookup Table

MIME

  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

NEMA

  National Electrical Manufacturers Association

OID

  Object Identifier (ISO 8824)

ROI

  Region of interest

SOP

  Service-Object Pair

SR

  Structured Reporting

UID

  Unique Identifier

UUID

  Universal Unique Identifier (ISO/IEC 11578)

URL/URI

  Uniform Resource Locator / Identifier

VM

  Value Multiplicity

VR

  Value Representation

WSDL

  Web Services Description Language

XSD

  XML Schema Definition

XML

  eXtensible Markup Language

XPath

  XML Path Language

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