| | DICOM Terms and Abbreviations |
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Program/Internet Protocol, the communication standard supported by DICOM.
TG: Abbreviation for a type of modality: Thermography.
TM: Abbreviation for a Value Representation: Time. For details see here.
Tonescale: The distribution of gray values used to present an image for display.
Transfer Syntax: Encoding
specification of DICOM messages,
negotiated while setting up an
Association. Examples of different
transfer syntaxes are Little
or Big Endian,
Implicit or
Explicit VR,
or a compression scheme (JPEG).
How objects should be encoded; can be
standard and/or private. A set of
encoding rules that allow Application
Entities to unambiguously negotiate the
encoding techniques (e.g., Data Element
structure, byte ordering, compression)
they are able to support, thereby
allowing these Application Entities to
communicate.
Transport connection: A way of moving unstructured data across a network (e.g.,
Type: Specification of rule for attributes to be present in an object. Type 1 attributes are required, Type 2, required, but can be left out when unknown, and Type 3 are optional.
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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 |