DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

OB

OB: Abbreviation for a Value Representation: Other Byte String. For details see here.

OSI

OSI: Open Systems Interconnection, standards organization standardizing the 7-layer communications model and also the ACSE commands.

OT

OT: Abbreviation for a type of modality: Other.

OW

OW: Abbreviation for a Value Representation: Other Word String. For details see here.

Overlay

Overlay: Graphics or text typically specified in addition to the image as an annotation.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X

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