DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

CCU

CCU: Critical Care Unit

CD

CD: Abbreviation for a type of modality: Color flow Doppler.

CD-R

CD-R: Compact Disk, Read only, an option for the physical specification for the DICOM media exchange standard.

CDS

CDS: Clinical Display Station

CF

CF: Abbreviation for a type of modality: Cinefluorography.

CP

CP: Abbreviation for a type of modality: Culposcopy.

CP: Abbreviation for Change Proposal, a document that describes a modification to the DICOM standard.

CR

CR: Computerized Radiography system acquiring images using a photo-stimulable phosphor plate typically to be read by a CR reader for image conversion.

CS

CS: Abbreviation for a Value Representation: Code String. For details see here.

CS: Abbreviation for a type of modality: Cystoscopy.

CT

CT: Computerized Tomography system acquiring axial images of patients by rotating an X-ray and Detector system.

Command

Command: A DICOM command is a generic means to operate on information objects across an interface or network.

Command element

Command element: An encoding of a command parameter that conveys the parameter's value.

Commands stream

Commands stream: The result of encoding a set of DICOM command elements using the DICOM encoding scheme.

Composite

Composite: A type of information object that contains multiple attributes, as opposed to normalized objects that contain only one attribute.

Composite IOD

Composite IOD: A composite IOD is an object containing parts of more than one entity, for example an Image IOD is a composite IOD, containing information about the patient, study, etc. and the image itself.

Compression

Compression: A technique by which the size of a file or image is reduced, while maintaining the quality required for a given application.

Conformance statement

Conformance statement: A formal statement associated with a specific implementation of the DICOM standard. It specifies the service classes, information objects, and communication protocols supported by the implementation.

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