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    Physical Safeguards

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    The physical safeguards deal with the physical means used to implement the HIPAA security regulation; they draw on the administrative…

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    Patient Synchronized Applications (PSA)

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    Reconciles unknown patients and unschedule orders. The Patient Information Reconciliation Integration Profile extends the Scheduled Workflow and the Reporting Workflow…

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    Modality LUT

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    The first component of the imaging pipeline is the Modality LUT transformation, which compensates for any modality-specific presentation. There are…

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    Little Endian

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    An encoding method by which the least significant byte is stored in the high order bits of a 16 bit…

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    JPIP

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    JPEG2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) Entry courtesy of Eric Goodall from the Google DICOM Protocols Group The heart of the JPIP…

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    Intensive Care Unit | ICU

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    An intensive care unit (ICU) is the hospital department where seriously ill patients and patients that require constant monitoring are…

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    Implicit VR

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    Implicit Value Representation. A transfer syntax in which the receiver is assumed (“implied”) to know the VR syntax and context.…

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    Implementation Class UID

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    A unique number, which is exchanged during the set-up of the Association, by which an AE identifies itself. Each class…