DD+DIS150.06E
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1 Glossary
Term Short description
μGy
Micro Gray – x-ray dose
1Gy= 0.87 x 10 –2 J/kg
ADC
Agfa Diagnostic Center
AE – title
Application Entity
ASAP - Package
AGFA Scanner Access Package
Software that runs on the processing station. It
handles all digitizer operations
BOL
Begin Of Line
BOS
Begin Of Scan
Browser
A program that provides an interface to the World
Wide Web, e.g. Netscape Navigator, Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Calibration
Algorithm to counterbalance irregularities in the
scanner of CR.
CAN bus
Control Area Network bus; communication protocol
to interchange data between the connected
participants via only one medium – bus system used
in the digitizer
CAS
Clinical Application Specialist
CCM
Configuration and Customization Manager: Tool to
edit the configuration file adc.cpf
Collimation
Determination of the region of the interesting data in
the image. On that region the image processing is
applied.
CPF – file
Customization Parameter File; file that contains
settings for all parameters that can be modified to
configure a CR System according to local needs.
CPU
Central Processing Unit. The computing part of a
PC, also known as the “processor” of a PC.
CR
Computed Radiography
CU-Filter
Copper plate (chemical symbol: CU) used for
exposure of a flatfield.
DICOM
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
Dose, x-ray dose
= kV x mA x sec see also μGy = Micro Gray
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