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This is a value set defined by the FHIR project.
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This value set contains 53 concepts
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Copyright Statement: These codes are excerpted from Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard, Part 16: Content Mapping Resource, Copyright 2011 by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association
This value set includes codes defined in other code systems, using the following rules:
Code | Display | |
AR | Autorefraction | Autorefraction device |
AU | Audio | Audio object |
BDUS | Ultrasound Bone Densitometry | Ultrasound Bone Densitometry (modality) |
BI | Biomagnetic imaging | Biomagnetic imaging device |
BMD | Bone Mineral Densitometry | Bone Mineral Densitometry by X-Ray (modality), including dual-energy X-Ray absorptiometry (DXA) and morphometric X-Ray absorptiometry (MXA) |
CR | Computed Radiography | Computed Radiography device |
CT | Computed Tomography | Computed Tomography device |
DG | Diaphanography | Diaphanography device |
DX | Digital Radiography | Digital Radiography device |
ECG | Electrocardiography | Electrocardiography device |
EPS | Cardiac Electrophysiology | Cardiac Electrophysiology device |
ES | Endoscopy | Endoscopy device |
GM | General Microscopy | General Microscopy device |
HC | Hard Copy | Hard Copy |
HD | Hemodynamic Waveform | Hemodynamic Waveform acquisition device |
IO | Intra-oral Radiography | Intra-oral Radiography device |
IVOCT | Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography | Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography device |
IVUS | Intravascular Ultrasound | Intravascular Ultrasound device |
KER | Keratometry | Keratometry device |
KO | Key Object Selection | Key Object Selection object |
LEN | Lensometry | Lensometry device |
LS | Laser surface scan | Laser surface scan device |
MG | Mammography | Mammography device |
MR | Magnetic Resonance | Magnetic Resonance device |
NM | Nuclear Medicine | Nuclear Medicine device |
OAM | Ophthalmic Axial Measurements | Measurements of the axial length of the eye which are done by various devices |
OCT | Optical Coherence Tomography | Modality device that uses an interferometric, non-invasive optical tomographic technique to image 2D slices and 3D volumes of tissue using visible and near visible frequencies. |
OP | Ophthalmic photography | Ophthalmic photography modality |
OPM | Ophthalmic Mapping | Modality device that measures corneal topography, corneal or retinal thickness, and other similar parameters that are typically displayed as maps. |
OPT | Ophthalmic Tomography | Tomography of the eye acquired by a modality that is based on light and optical principles. Tomography based on other principles, such as ultrasound, is excluded. |
OPV | Ophthalmic Visual Field | Modality device that measures visual fields and perform visual perimetry. |
OT | Other Modality | Other Modality device |
PR | Presentation State | Presentation State object |
PT | Positron emission tomography | Positron emission tomography (PET) device |
PX | Panoramic X-Ray | Panoramic X-Ray device |
REG | Registration | Registration |
RF | Radiofluoroscopy | Radiofluoroscopy device |
RG | Radiographic imaging | Radiographic imaging (conventional film/screen) |
RTDOSE | Radiotherapy Dose | Radiotherapy Dose |
RTIMAGE | Radiotherapy Image | Radiotherapy Imaging device; includes portal imaging |
RTPLAN | Radiotherapy Plan | Radiotherapy Plan |
RTRECORD | Radiotherapy Treatment Record | Radiotherapy Treatment Record |
RTSTRUCT | Radiotherapy Structure Set | Radiotherapy Structure Set |
SEG | Segmentation | Segmentation |
SM | Slide Microscopy | Slide Microscopy |
SMR | Stereometric Relationship | Stereometric image pairing modality |
SR | Structured Report Document | Structured Report Document |
SRF | Subjective Refraction | Subjective Refraction device |
TG | Thermography | Thermography device |
US | Ultrasound | Ultrasound device |
VA | Visual Acuity | Visual Acuity device |
XA | X-Ray Angiography | X-Ray Angiography device |
XC | External-camera Photography | External-camera Photography device |
This value set is used in the following places:
The OID for the value set is 1.2.840.10008.6.1.811 (OIDs are not used in FHIR, but may be used in v3, or OID based terminology systems).
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