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3.1 Presentation Service Definitions

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in [ISO 8822]:

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in [InfoSet]:

The concept of an XML Attribute is quite distinct from that of a DICOM Attribute.
To avoid confusion with the DICOM terms with similar names, the text of the DICOM Standard will use XML Element and XML Attribute when referring to these XML Infoset concepts. The appearance of Element or Attribute without the term XML in front of them generally refers to the DICOM concepts instead of the XML Infoset concepts.

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.1:

Attribute: See Attribute in PS3.1 .
Service-Object Pair Class (SOP Class): See Service-Object Pair Class in PS3.1 .

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following term defined in PS3.3:

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.5:

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.16:

Baseline Context Group Identifier (BCID): See Baseline Context Group Identifier in PS3.16 .
Defined Context Group Identifier (DCID): See Defined Context Group Identifier in PS3.16 .
Context Group: See Context Group in PS3.16 .
Context Group Version: See Context Group Version in PS3.16 .
Context ID (CID): See Context ID in PS3.16 .
Mapping Resource: See Mapping Resource in PS3.16 .
DICOM Content Mapping Resource (DCMR): See DICOM Content Mapping Resource in PS3.16 .
Value Set: See Value Set in PS3.16 .
Coding Scheme: See Coding Scheme in PS3.16 .

The following definitions are commonly used in this Part of the Standard:

Application Programming Interface (API): A set of interface methods that Hosted Applications and Hosting Systems use to communicate with each other.
Hosted Application: An application launched and controlled by a Hosting System. The Hosted Application may utilize services offered by the Hosting System.
Hosting System: The application used to launch and control Hosted Applications. The Hosting System provides a variety of services such as DICOM object retrieval and storage for the Hosted Application. The Hosting System provides the infrastructure in which the Hosted Application runs and interacts with the external environment. This includes network access, database and security.

This Part of the Standard makes use of the following terms defined in PS3.4:

Service-Object Pair Instance (SOP Instance): See Service-Object Pair Instance in PS3.4 .

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