Management of Acquisition Protocols

Summary

Management of Acquisition Protocols (MAP) lets image acquisition protocols be sent between scanners, archives and protocol management workstations for the purpose of review and management. DICOM currently handles CT protocols, but work is under way to also handle MR and X-ray Angiography protocols.

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Benefits

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Details

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Systems Affected

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• PACS systems may store, manage, and/or display Evidence Documents.
• Display systems may query, retrieve and display Evidence Documents.
• Reporting workstations may retrieve, process and include details from Evidence Documents in reports

Actors & Transactions:

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Specification

Profile Status: Trial Implementation

Documents:

IHE Management of Acquisition Protocols (MAP) Supplement

Underlying Standards:

• DICOM
• HL7

See Also

Related Profiles

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• Scheduled Workflow [SWF.b] has an Assisted-Protocol Setting Option that would benefit from management of protocol labels.
• Portable Data for Imaging [PDI] could be used to export/import DICOM protocol instances to media for sharing with another facility or organization. (e.g., protocols for multiple models in a given clinical trial, reference protocols for a particular diagnostic task, or a full backup catalog of protocols)
• Radiation Exposure Monitoring [REM] could be used on the protocol manager to coordinate a dose reduction program with protocol management.

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Reference Articles

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