JJ Inventory Query/Retrieve Service Class

The Inventory Query/Retrieve Service Class defines an application-level class-of-service that facilitates discovery of and access to Inventory composite objects.

See Basic Worklist Management Service Class Section K.1.2 Conventions.

The SOP Classes of the Inventory Query/Retrieve Service Class are each composed of an Information Model and a DIMSE-C Service Group.

In order to serve as an SCP of the Inventory Query/Retrieve Service Class, a DICOM AE possesses information about the Attributes of a number of Inventory composite SOP Instances. The information is organized into an Inventory Query/Retrieve Information Model.

Two peer DICOM AEs implement a SOP Class of the Inventory Query/Retrieve Service Class with one serving in the SCU role and one serving in the SCP role. SOP Classes of the Inventory Query/Retrieve Service Class are implemented using the DIMSE-C C-FIND, C-MOVE and C-GET services as defined in PS3.7.

The semantics of the C-FIND service are the same as those defined in the Service Definition of the Basic Worklist Management Service Class (see Section C.1.4).

The semantics of the C-MOVE and C-GET services are the same as those defined in the Service Definition of the Query/Retrieve Service Class (see Section C.1.4), with the exception that there is only one level of retrieval.