AGFA HE/001132 - Manual (Page 8)

HE/001132 Page 8 of 92
Document No. 001132, Revision 2.0
Agfa HealthCare NodeID Livelink : 14140190 14 June, 2007
1.4 Acronyms and Abbreviations
Definitions, terms and abbreviations used in this document are defined within the different parts of the
DICOM standard. Abbreviations and terms are as follows:
Ø AE DICOM Application Entity
Ø AET Application Entity Title
Ø ACSE Association Control Service Element
Ø CD-R Compact Disk Recordable
Ø DICOM Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
Ø FSC File-Set Creator
Ø FSU File-Set Updater
Ø FSR File-Set Reader
Ø GSDF Grayscale Standard Display Function
Ø GSPS Grayscale Softcopy Presentation State
Ø IE Information Entity
Ø IOD (DICOM) Information Object Definition
Ø ISO International Standard Organization
Ø LUT Lookup Table
Ø MPPS Modality Performed Procedure Step
Ø MSPS Modality Scheduled Procedure Step
Ø PDU DICOM Protocol Data Unit
Ø SCU DICOM Service Class User (DICOM client)
Ø SCP DICOM Service Class Provider (DICOM server)
Ø SOP DICOM Service-Object Pair
Ø UID Unique Identifier
Ø VR Value Representation
1.5 Related Documents
Ø ACR-NEMA Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) V3.0. 2004.
Ø IHE Radiology Technical Framework Revision 6 – Final Text, May 2005