| | DICOM Terms and Abbreviations |
NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturing Association, US trade organization, members of which defined the first version of the DICOM standard together with the ACR.
NIE: Network Interface Equipment (a.k.a NIU) for interfacing a system to a network.
NIU: Network Interface Unit
NM: Nuclear Medicine system acquiring images of patients using radio-active tracers or agents.
Normalized: A type of information object that contains only one attribute, as opposed to a composite object, which can contain many attributes.
Normalized IOD: A Normalized IOD is an object representing a single entity of the real world. For example, a Patient IOD.
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Parts of this document are taken (with permission) from Herman Oosterwijk's "DICOM Expert" Cheat Sheet © Copyright OTech, Inc. P.O. Box 260637 Plano, Texas 75026 herman@otechimg.com |