Service manual

GE Medical Systems SIGNA PROFILE CONFORMANCE STATEMENT
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4.1.2 Functional Definition of AE’s
DICOM Print SCU Establishes the Association with requested printer to print the composed
film. If the Remote AE accepts the presentation context applicable to the print job, the
DICOM Print AE SCU will send the print job to the receiving Remote AE by using the N-
CREATE and N-SET services.
4.1.3 Sequencing of Real-World Activities
• User has to select the DICOM printer from Film Composer Interface.
• The images to be printed shall be dragged and dropped into film composer slots from
Viewing applications either manually or automatically.
• In case of manual drag and drop user has to press Print Button to print the images .
• The Print SCU will start the Print Session. The Print Session involves establishing
association with printer followed by the next sequence of activities.
• The Print SCU gets the Printer status using N-GET service. If the Printer returns FAILURE
status the print session will be terminated and the requester will be notified of the printer
status.
• The film session is created using N-CREATE service. In case of error return the print
session will be terminated. The attribute values for the Film session will be specified with
the film session request.
• The film box is created using N-CREATE service. The print session will be terminated if the
printer fails to create the film box. The film box attribute values will be sent in the film box
create request.
• The image attributes for the images to be printed in this session will be set using the N-SET
service. If the printer fails to accommodate the images in the image set to be printed the
print session will be terminated.
• The film will be printed using the N-ACTION service. Only film box printing is supported. In
case of error the print session will be terminated.
• Film box instance will be deleted using the N-DELETE service.
• The SCU does not wait for N-EVENT-REPORT from Printer after deleting the film box
instance. The N-EVENT-REPORT received when the asssociation is still active are
handled but the data received will be ignored.
• Finally the association will be terminated and if all the above operations are successful the
requester will be notified of the successul print session. This just indicates the images to be
printed have been successfully sent to the printer.
4.2 AE SPECIFICATIONS
4.2.1 DICOM Print SCU AE Specification
Print SCU provides Standard Conformance to the following DICOM 3.0 SOP classes as an
SCU:
SOP CLASS name SOP CLASS UID
Basic grayscale print management meta SOP class
1.2.840.10008.5.1.1.9
Printer SOP class
1.2.840.10008.5.1.1.16