DICOM PS3.18 2016a - Web Services

4 Terms and Definitions

For the purposes of this part of DICOM, the following terms and definitions apply.

Accept Query Parameter

A query parameter that specifies one or more media types acceptable for the representation(s) contained in the response. See Section 6.1.1.5.

Acceptable Character Sets

One or more character sets acceptable to the user agent in the response. See Section 6.1.2.1.

Acceptable Media Types

One or more media type acceptable to the user agent in the response. See Section 6.1.1.4.

Charset Query Parameter

A query parameter that specifies one or more character sets for the representation(s) contained in the response. See Section 6.1.2.2.

DICOM Persistent Object

An instance of a data object as defined by PS3.3 that has been allocated an unique identifier in the format specified for SOP Instance UID in PS3.3 and has been chosen as an object to be saved securely for some period of time. Within the DICOM Standard, a DICOM Persistent Object is referred to as a Composite Service Object Pair (SOP) Instance.

DICOM Resource Categories

A set of categories for the content of DICOM SOP Instances. Examples include images, video, and text. See Section 6.1.1.2.

Origin-Server

See [RFC 7230] Section 2.1 Client/Server Messaging.

Rendered Media Type

A non-DICOM media type into which DICOM instances may be transformed in order to display them using commonly available non-DICOM software, for example browsers. See Section 6.1.1.3.

Selected Character Set

The character sets selected by the origin server for the response payload. See Section 6.1.2.4.

Selected Media Type

The media type selected by the origin server for the response payload. See Section 6.1.1.7.

User-Agent

See [RFC 7230] Section 2.1 Client/Server Messaging.

Web Access to DICOM Persistent Objects

A service enabling the Web Client System to retrieve DICOM Persistent Objects managed by a Web Enabled DICOM Server, through HTTP/HTTPS protocol.

Web Client System

A system using Internet technologies (web, e-mail…) interested in retrieving DICOM Persistent Objects from a Web Enabled DICOM Server, through HTTP/HTTPS protocol.

Web Enabled DICOM Server

A system managing DICOM Persistent Objects and able to transmit them on request to the Web Client System.

DICOM PS3.18 2016a - Web Services