1 Scope and Field of Application (Current)
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1 Scope and Field of Application

This Part of the DICOM Standard specifies the set of Service Class Definitions that provide an abstract definition of real-world activities applicable to communication of digital medical information. For each Service Class Definition, this Part specifies:

the semantic description of the activities of the Service Class Definition
the group of DIMSE Service operations and notifications applicable to the Service Class Description
one or more functionally-related Service-Object Pair (SOP) Classes that are supported by the Service Class Definition and may be performed between peer DICOM Application Entities
the relationship of each Service-Object Pair (SOP) Classes to applicable Information Object Definitions specified in PS3.3.

For each Service Class Definition, this Part does not specify:

any necessary information for the semantic description of the IOD
relationships to associated real-world objects relevant to the IOD
Attributes that describe the characteristics of the IOD

This Part is related to other parts of the DICOM Standard in that:

PS3.3 Information Object Definitions specifies the set of Information Object Definitions to which the services defined in this Part may be applied
PS3.5 Data Structure and Semantics defines the data encoding used in the DIMSE Protocol when applied to IODs defined in this Part
PS3.6 Data Dictionary contains an index by Tag of all IOD Attributes defined in this Part. This index includes the Value Representation and Value Multiplicity for each Attribute
PS3.7 Message Exchange Protocol defines the DIMSE Services and Protocol that may be applied to IODs defined in this Part.

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