https://weasis.org/en/glossary/ Short, plain-language definitions of the DICOM and imaging terms used across this documentation — MPR, MIP, SUV, SEG, SR, RT objects, DICOMweb, window and level. Hugo en https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicom-rt/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicom-rt/ Radiotherapy DICOM objects describe the contours, the plan and the delivered dose of a treatment. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicom-seg/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicom-seg/ A DICOM Segmentation stores labeled regions as a separate object that references the images they were drawn on. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicom-sr/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicom-sr/ A DICOM Structured Report stores report content as a coded tree rather than as free text, so measurements stay machine-readable. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicomweb/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/dicomweb/ DICOMweb is the set of RESTful web services for DICOM: query, retrieve and store over HTTP. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/mip/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/mip/ Maximum intensity projection collapses a slab of a volume into one image by keeping the brightest voxel along each ray. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/mpr/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/mpr/ Multiplanar reconstruction rebuilds views in planes the scanner never acquired, from a stack that it did. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/suv/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/suv/ The standardized uptake value normalizes PET activity by injected dose and body size, so uptake can be compared. https://weasis.org/en/glossary/window-level/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://weasis.org/en/glossary/window-level/ Window and level select which range of stored pixel values is mapped to the shades of gray on screen.