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AsystemthatlaterN-CREATEsaMPPSSOPInstancemayusetheseAttributevaluesextractedfromtherelatedImageSOPInstances. •Copy the following Attribute values, if available to the Modality, into the Image SOP Instances:
•Accession Number •Patient ID •Patient's Name •Patient's Birth Date •Patient's Sex
If sufficient identifying information is be included, it will allow the Image SOP Instances to be later related to the Requested Procedure and the actual or conceptual Detached Study Management entity.
•Include the following Attribute values that may be generated during image acquisition, if supported, into the Image SOP Instances: •Performed Procedure Step Start Date
•Performed Procedure Step Start Time •Performed Procedure Step Description •Study ID
AsystemthatlaterN-CREATEsaMPPSSOPInstancemayusetheseAttributevaluesextractedfromtherelatedImageSOPInstances.
J.4 One MPPS Is Created in Response to Two Or More Requested Procedures
In the MPPS SOP Instance, all the specific Attributes of a Scheduled Procedure Step or Steps are included in the Scheduled Step Attributes Sequence. In the Image SOP Instances, these Attributes may be included in the Request Attributes Sequence. This is an optional Sequence in order not to change the definition of existing SOP Classes by adding new required Attributes or changing the meaning of existing Attributes.
Both Sequences may have more than one Item if more than one Requested Procedure results in a single Performed Procedure Step.
Because of the definitions of existing Attributes in existing Image SOP Classes, the following solutions are a compromise. The first onechoosesorcreatesavalueforthesinglevaluedAttributesStudyInstanceUIDandAccessionNumber.Thesecondonecompletely replicates the Image data with different values for the Attributes Study Instance UID and Accession Number.
J.4.1 Choose Or Create A Value For Study Instance UID and Accession Number
The modality may:
•In the Image SOP Instances:
•create a Request Attributes Sequence containing two or more Items each containing the following Attributes:
•Requested Procedure ID
•Scheduled Procedure Step ID
•Scheduled Procedure Step Description
•Scheduled Protocol Code Sequence
•create a Referenced Study Sequence containing two or more Items sufficient to contain the Study SOP Instance UID values from the Modality Worklist for both Requested Procedures
•select one value from the Modality Worklist or generate a new value for:
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•Study Instance UID
•select one value from the Modality Worklist or generate a new value or assign an empty value for:
•Accession Number
•In the MPPS SOP Instance:
•create a Scheduled Step Attributes Sequence containing two or more Items each containing the following Attributes:
•Study Instance UID
•Referenced Study Sequence
•Accession Number
•Requested Procedure ID
•Scheduled Procedure Step ID
•Scheduled Procedure Step Description
•Scheduled Protocol Code Sequence
•include the following Attribute value that may be generated during image acquisition, if supported:
•Procedure Code Sequence
•In both the Image SOP Instances and the MPPS SOP Instance
•create a Performed Procedure Step ID
•include the following Attribute values that may be generated during image acquisition, if supported:
•Performed Procedure Step Start Date
•Performed Procedure Step Start Time
•Performed Procedure Step Description
•Study ID
J.4.2 Replicate The Image IOD
An alternative method is to replicate the entire Image SOP Instance with a new SOP Instance UID, and assign each Image IOD it's own identifying Attributes. In this case, each of the Study Instance UID and the Accession Number values can be used in their own Image SOP Instance.
BothImageSOPInstancesmayreferenceasingleMPPSSOPInstance(viatheMPPSSOPInstanceUIDintheReferencedPerformed
Procedure Step Sequence).
Each individual Image SOP Instance may reference it's own related Study SOP Instance, if it exists (via the Referenced Study Se- quence). This Study SOP Instance has a one to one relationship with the corresponding Requested Procedure.
If an MPPS SOP Instance is created, it may reference both related Study SOP Instances.
The modality may:
•For all Series in the MPPS, replicate the entire Series of Images using new Series Instance UIDs
•Create replicated Image SOP Instances with different SOP Instance UIDs that use the new Series Instance UIDs, for each of the two or more Requested Procedures
•In each of the Image SOP Instances, using values from the corresponding Requested Procedure:
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•create a Request Attributes Sequence containing an Item containing the following Attributes: •Requested Procedure ID
•Scheduled Procedure Step ID •Scheduled Procedure Step Description •Scheduled Protocol Code Sequence
•copy from the Modality Worklist: •Study Instance UID •Accession Number
•create a Referenced Study Sequence containing an Item containing the following Attribute: •Study SOP Instance in the Referenced Study Sequence from the Worklist
•In the MPPS SOP Instance (if supported):
•create a Scheduled Step Attributes Sequence containing two or more Items each containing the following Attributes: •Study Instance UID
•Referenced Study Sequence •Accession Number •Requested Procedure ID •Scheduled Procedure Step ID
•Scheduled Procedure Step Description •Scheduled Protocol Code Sequence
•include the following Attribute value that may be generated during image acquisition, if supported: •Procedure Code Sequence
•In both the Image SOP Instances and the MPPS SOP Instance (if supported): •create a Performed Procedure Step ID
•include the following Attribute values that may be generated during image acquisition, if supported: •Performed Procedure Step Start Date
•Performed Procedure Step Start Time •Performed Procedure Step Description •Study ID
J.5 MPPS SOP Instance Created by Another System (not the Modality)
If for some reason the Modality was unable to create the MPPS SOP Instance, another system may wish to perform this service. This system must make sure that the created PPS SOP Instance is consistent with the related Image SOP Instances.
Depending on the availability and correctness of values for the Attributes in the Image SOP Instances, these values may be copied into the MPPS SOP Instance, or they may have to be coerced, e.g., if they are not consistent with corresponding values available from the IS.
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Forexample,iftheMPPSSOPInstanceUIDisalreadyavailableintheImageSOPInstance(intheReferencedPerformedProcedure Step Sequence), it may be utilized to N-CREATE the MPPS SOP Instance. If not available, a new MPPS SOP Instance UID may be generatedandusedtoN-CREATEtheMPPSSOPInstance.InthiscasetheremaybenoMPPSSOPInstanceUIDintheReferenced Performed Procedure Step Sequence in the corresponding Image SOP Instances. An update of the Image SOP Instances will restore the consistency, but this is not required.
J.6 Mapping of Study Instance UIDs to the Study SOP Instance UID
Retired. See PS3.17-2004.
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