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EventPathology Visions 2026
Pathology Visions, hosted by the Digital Pathology Association, is the premier annual forum for the clinical adoption of digital pathology…
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EventNational Imaging Informatics Course
The National Imaging Informatics Course (NIIC) is an accelerated, week-long online experience for imaging informaticists seeking to better leverage their…
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SIIM Honors Pioneers and Rising Stars in Imaging Informatics at SIIM26
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leesburg, VA – June 16, 2026 The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) celebrated excellence and…
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Treatment-Planning-Operation | TPO
Treatment-Planning-Operation (TPO) is the HIPAA term identifying medical treatment and its management process. The TPO rule in the HIPAA regulation…
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Magneto-Optical Disk | MOD
Magneto Optical Disc, used as one of the physical exchange media options for the DICOM exchange standard.
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URL “u-ar-el”
A unified resource locator (URL) is the address of an Internet resource such as a web site, a document, or…
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Maximum Intensity Projection | MIP
Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) is a volume-rendering technique, which is used to visualize high-intensity structures within volumetric data. At each…
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VLAN “vee-lan”
A VLAN (virtual LAN) is a network that uses switches instead of routers to manage segments (subdivisions of a network).…
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Media Access Control | MAC
Address typically hard-coded at an Ethernet interface board, being used in the Ethernet addressing.
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VPN “vee-pee-en”
A virtual private network (VPN) is a connection to a LAN that uses (tunnels through) the infrastructure of a WAN…
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Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS) | MPPS
A DICOM service used to communicate exam status, number of images performed, and performed information from the modality to both…
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WADO “wah-doh”
The Web Access to DICOM persistent Objects (WADO) extension to the DICOM standard was defined jointly with the European Standardization…
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File Set Creator | FSC
File Set Creator, the function of a device that creates DICOM exchange media, typically an acquisition device such as an…