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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 |
ACSE |
Association Control Service Element |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
AE |
Application Entity |
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
AP |
Application Process |
ASE |
Application Service Element |
ARTIM |
Association Request/Reject/Release Timer |
CEN TC251Comite Europeen de Normalisation-Technical Committee 251 - Medical Informatics
DICOM |
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine |
FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
HL7 |
Health Level 7 |
IEC |
International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
ISDN |
Integrated Services Digital Network |
ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
ISP |
International Standardized Profile |
JIRA |
Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association |
LAN |
Local Area Network |
NEMA |
National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
OSI |
Open Systems Interconnection |
PDU |
Protocol Data Unit |
PDV |
Presentation Data Values |
SAP |
Service Access Point |
TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Program/Internet Protocol |
UID |
Unique Identifier |
UL |
Upper Layers |
WAN |
Wide Area Network |
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5 Conventions
The following conventions are used for the service description tables shown in this Part of the Standard.
(=) The same parameter value used in the indication or confirmation shall be the same as used in the request or response respect-
ively.
C Conditional (on User Option)
M Mandatory usage
MF Mandatory with a fixed value
NU Not Used
P Provider Initiated
U User Option
UF User Option with a fixed value
Blank entries are not applicable.
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6 Network Communication Support
Environment
The Network Communication Services specified in PS3.8 are a set of generic services provided to support the communication of DICOM Application Entities. They are a proper subset of the services offered by the OSI Presentation Service (ISO 8822) and of the OSI Association Control Service Element (ACSE) (ISO 8649). They shall be referred to as the Upper Layer Service or UL Service. The DICOM UL Service is specified in Section 7.
This UL Service is provided by the Upper Layer Protocol for TCP/IP (see Section 9).
Figure 6-1 shows the TCP/IP protocol stack that is available to support the communication of DICOM Application Entities.
Medical Imaging
Application
DICOM Application Message Exhange
BOUNDARY: DICOM Upper Layer Service
DICOM Upper Layer Protocol for TCP/IP
TCP/IP Transport Layer
Network
Figure 6-1. DICOM Network Protocol Architecture
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