ACR	American College of Radiology
AE	Application Entity
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AT	Attribute Tag
CC	Covert Channel
CR	Covert Receiver
CS	Covert Sender
CT	Computed Tomography
DICOM	Digital Imaging and COmmunication in Medicine
DIMSE	DICOM Message Service Elements
DIMSE-C	DIMSE Composite
DIMSE-N	DIMSE Normalized
EC2	Elastic Compute Cloud
GAN	Generative Adversarial Networks
HIS	Hospital Information System
HL7	Health Level Seven
ID	Identifier
IODs	Information Object Definitions
LO	Long String
LSB	Least Significant Bit
MR	Magnetic Resonance
MRI	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NEMA	National Electrical Manufacturers Association
PACS	Picture Archiving and Communication Systems
PET	Positron Emission Tomography
RIS	Radiology Information System
RQ	Request
RSP	Response
SCPs	Service Class Providers
SCUs	Service Class Users
SOPs	Service-Object Pairs
UI VR	Unique Identifier Value Representation
UID	Unique Identifier
UL	Unsigned Long
US	Unsigned Short
VM	Value Multiplicity
VR	Value Representation