LIST OF ACRONYMS
| 1-D | one-dimensional |
| 2-D | two-dimensional |
| 3-D | three-dimensional |
| 4-D | four-dimensional |
| A/D | analog to digital converter |
| A & E | ambulatory and emergency |
| ABF | Air Blown Fiber |
| ACC | Ambulatory Care Center |
| ACGME | Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education |
| ACR | American College of Radiology |
| ACR BIRADS | American College of Radiology Beast Imaging Reporting and Data System Atlas |
| ACR-NEMA | American College of Radiology–National Electric Manufacturer’s Association |
| ADM | an acquisition and display module |
| ADT | admission, discharge, transfer |
| AE | application entities |
| AFBUS | volumetric (3D) automated full breast ultrasound |
| AFP | alpha-fetal protein—a tumor marker |
| AIH | acute intracranial hemorrhage |
| AL | aluminum |
| AMP | amplifier |
| AMS | Acquisition Modality Standards Institute |
| AMS | automatic monitoring system |
| ANL | Argon National Laboratory |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AP or PA | Anterior-Posterior, Access Point |
| API | application Program Interface |
| APS | antepartum care summary |
| ARI | access to radiology information |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASI NATO | Advanced Study Institute |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASP | active server pages |
| ASP | application services provider |
| AT | Acceptance Testing |
| ATL | active template library |
| ATM | asynchronous transfer mode |
| ATNA | audit trail and node authentication |
| Az | area under the ROC curve |
| BAA | bone age assessment |
| BPP | bit per pixel |
| BDF | Building Distribution Center |
| BGO | Bismuth Germanate X-ray detector |
| BIDG | Breast imaging data grid |
| BIS | Bispectral Index ... |
