HE/001132
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Document No.001132, Revision 2.0
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Agfa HealthCare
14 June, 2007
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N-CREATE
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N-ACTION
N-CREATE
is issued by "Workstation" (SCU) to create a Basic Film Session SOP instance, when an
Association has been established. The N-CREATE causes the Basic Film Session (root element) to be
created by the SCP AE and its attributes initialized. The following attributes are supported
:
Table 2.2-24: Supported N-CREATE Attributes for a Basic Film Session
Attribute Name
Tag
Value
Number of Copies
(2000,0010)
Always set to 1
Print priority
(2000,0020)
Configurable
Medium Type
(2000,0030)
BLUE FILM ,CLEAR FILM, PAPER (configurable)
Film destination
(2000,0040)
MAGAZINE, BIN-i , PROCESSOR (configurable)
"Workstation" (SCU) will process the N-CREATE confirmation and response Status codes. The following
status codes are recognized:
Table 2.2-25: N-CREATE Status Codes
Code
Status
Meaning
0000
Success
Film Session successfully created
0116H
Warning
(or
Failure,
depends on
the
selected
Printer Profile)
The SCP AE returns the attribute ”Value Out of Range”. This may result in Image Quality
Degradation.
"Workstation" will continue when its destination is an AGFA printer, but stops (ABORT) when
its destination is a non-AGFA printer (might lead to unacceptable image quality).
0106H
The SCP AE returns the attribute ”Invalid Attribute Value” . This indicates that the requested
memory allocation cannot be provided.
0213H
Error
Resource Limitation is returned by the SCP AE for the Basic Film Session SOP Class to
indicate that the requested allocation can temporarily not be provided.
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Other Status
codes
Other Dicom error codes result in the failure of the job. Other warnings are not
communicated to the user.
N-ACTION
is issued by "Workstation" (SCU) to print a Film Session. This means that all subordinate Basic
Film Boxes will be assembled into a print job for printing. (The job can therefore contain more than one film.)
"Workstation" (SCU) will process the N-ACTION confirmation and response Status codes. The following
status codes in Table 2.2-25 are recognized :