DICOM PS3.5 2016b - Data Structures and Encoding

4 Symbols and Abbreviations
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# 4 Symbols and Abbreviations

The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this Standard.

ACR

  American College of Radiology

AE

  Application Entity

ANSI

  American National Standards Institute

CEN TC251

  Comite Europeen de Normalisation - Technical Committee 251 - Healthcare Informatics

DICOM

  Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

HISPP

  Healthcare Information Standards Planning Panel

HL7

  Healthcare Industry Level 7 Interface Standards

IEEE

  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IOD

  Information Object Definition

ISO

  International Standards Organization

JPEG

  Joint Photographic Experts Group

JIRA

  Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association

MPEG

  Moving Picture Experts Group

MSDS

  Healthcare Message Standard Developers Sub-Committee

NEMA

  National Electrical Manufacturers Association

OSI

  Open Systems Interconnection

RLE

  Run Length Encoding

TCP/IP

  Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

UID

  Unique Identifier

SOP

  Service-Object Pair

UTC

  Coordinated Universal Time

URI/URL

  Uniform Resource Identifier/Locator

VM

  Value Multiplicity

VR

  Value Representation

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