The following symbols and abbreviations are used in this Part of the Standard.
American College of Radiology
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Application Entity
American National Standards Institute
Beam's-eye view
Brachytherapy
Bottom Right Hand Corner
Counter-clockwise
Clinical Document Architecture (HL7)
Comité Européen de Normalisation - Technical Committee 251 - Medical Informatics
Consultative Committee, International Radio
Computer-Aided Detection and/or Computer-Aided Diagnosis for chest radiography
Clinical target volume
Clockwise
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
DICOM Message Service Element
DICOM Message Service Element-Composite
DICOM Message Service Element-Normalized
Digitally-reconstructed radiograph
Dose-volume histogram
Electronic Portal Image
Electronic Portal Imaging Device
Gross tumor volume
Gray
Healthcare Information Standards Planning Panel
Health Level 7
Hierarchical Message Description (HL7)
International Commission on Radiation Units
Information Entity
International Electrotechnical Commission
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
Instance Identifier (HL7)
Information Object Definition
International Standards Organization
International Telecommunications Union - Telecommunications Standardization Sector
Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography
Japan Medical Imaging and Radiological Systems Industries Association
JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol
Lookup Table
Message Authentication Code
Computer-Aided Detection and/or Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Mammography
Mega electron Volt
Multileaf (multi-element) collimator
Healthcare Message Standard Developers Sub-Committee
Monitor unit
Megavolt
Not a Number (see IEEE 754)
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Object Identifier (ISO 8824)
Ophthalmic Tomography
Open Systems Interconnection
Portable Document Format
Planning target volume
Record and verify
Reference Coordinate System
Region of interest
Radiotherapy
Source-axis distance
Service Class Provider
Structured Clinical Trial Protocol (HL7)
Service Class User
Structured Documents (HL7)
Source Image Receptor Distance
Source Object Distance
Service-Object Pair
Structured Product Labeling (HL7)
Structured Reporting
Source-skin distance
Top Left Hand Corner
Unique Identifier
Universal Unique Identifier (ISO/IEC 11578)
Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing Profile (IHE)
Extensible Markup Language