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DICOM tag · Encoding

Specific Character Set (0008,0005)

By Aviram Biton, Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS ·

Tag(0008,0005)
KeywordSpecificCharacterSet
VRCS
VM1-n

What it holds

The character set used for text in the object, for example ISO_IR 100 (Latin-1) or ISO_IR 192 (UTF-8).

In migrations and validation

Missing or wrong values turn accented names into garbage in the new system and break name matching. Check it before comparing patient names across systems.

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More encoding tags

Tag, keyword, VR and VM per the DICOM standard, PS3.6 data dictionary. Notes by DICOMATICS. Looking for another tag? Use the DICOM tag lookup.

About the author

Aviram Biton

Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS

Aviram Biton founded DICOMATICS and leads its engineering work. He has spent two decades with medical imaging data: PACS and VNA migrations, multi-site consolidations, interfaces and data quality for US hospitals and health systems.

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