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If the Attribute is absent, a value of INFORMATIVE may be assumed.
C.34.9.4 Modifiable Constraint Flag
New protocol instances derived from original protocol instances with different constraints on a given Attribute "modify" the constraint. Thisflagmaybeusedbydevicesthatcreateoriginalinstancestospecifywhichconstraintscanbemodifiedbyotherdevicesinderived instances.
For example, a CT device that creates a Defined Procedure Protocol, may indicate that the Element Name (0018,9922) of the Acquis- ition Protocol Element, or the CTDIvol Notification Trigger (0018,9942) constraints may be modified, but the Spiral Pitch Factor (0018,9311) constraint may not since the latter depends on correlated changes by the device to other Attributes. Such information would be useful to a protocol management workstation that is letting its operator make changes to the CTDIvol Notification Trigger.
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There is a difference between these "derivation" modifications and what an operator does at the time of protocol execution. At execution time, the operator is using the CT device to change Selector Attribute values and those values are compared totheConstraintValuesintheConstraintMacrooftheDefinedProtocol.Theresultmay(ormaynotbe)storedinaPerformed Procedure Protocol instance. At derivation time, an operator is using a workstation to change Constraint Values in the Con- straint Macro and store a new Defined Procedure Protocol Instance.
C.34.10 Performed CT Acquisition Module
This Module contains acquisition parameter values for a performed CT imaging procedure. The purpose of this Module is to record all relevant parameters, not just to record the values that were constrained in the executed Defined Protocol (if any).
This Module contains Attributes that are "set" on the machine, e.g., to affect its behavior, but not those that describe the results. The latter may be found in the reconstructed images.
Table C.34.10-1. Performed CT Acquisition Module Attributes
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Acquisition Protocol |
(0018,9920) |
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Parameter values for each Protocol Element in the acquisition protocol. |
Element Sequence |
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EachItemintheSequencedescribesoneElement.Elementsareperformed |
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in the order of their Protocol Element Number (0018,9921). |
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See Section C.34.9.1. |
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Zero or more Items shall be included in this Sequence. |
>Include Table 10.28-1 “Protocol Element Identification |
Macro Attributes” |
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>Acquisition Type |
(0018,9302) |
1 |
Description of the method used during acquisition. |
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See Section C.8.15.3.2.1 for Defined Terms. |
>Tube Angle |
(0018,9303) |
1C |
TheconstantangleatwhichtheX-Raysourceislocatedduringacquisition. |
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0degreesmeansthatthesourceislocatedatthehighestpointofthegantry |
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orbit. Degrees increase from 0 to positive 360 in a clockwise direction as |
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viewed when facing the gantry where the table enters the gantry. |
Required if Acquisition Type (0018,9302) is CONSTANT_ANGLE.