5 Symbols and Abbreviated Terms

DICOM

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine

HL7

Health Level Seven

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPs

HyperText Transfer Protocol, secured

IHE

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MTOM

Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism

QIDO-RS

Query based on ID for DICOM Objects by RESTful Services

REST

Representational State Transfer

RESTful

A RESTful Web service is a Web service implemented using REST architecture and HTTP (see http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/fielding_dissertation.pdf)

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP12 for SOAP version 1.2)

SOP

Service Object Pair

STOW-RS

STore Over the Web by RESTful Services

UID

Unique (DICOM) Identifier

URL/URI

Uniform Resource Locator / Identifier

WADO-RS

Web Access to DICOM Objects by RESTful Services

WADO-URI

Web Access to DICOM Objects by URI

WADO-WS

Web Access to DICOM Objects by Web Services (WS*)

WS

Web Services

WSDL

Web Services Description Language

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

XOP

XML-binary Optimized Packaging