Tag(0008,0020)
KeywordStudyDate
VRDA
VM1
What it holds
The date the study started, YYYYMMDD.
In migrations and validation
Used to break inventory queries into small date windows and as a matching key. Watch for studies with an empty or obviously wrong date: they are easy to miss when you query by date range. In de-identification, dates are usually shifted by a consistent per-patient offset.
Related tags
- Study Time (0008,0030): StudyTime, TM
- Series Date (0008,0021): SeriesDate, DA
More study tags
- Study Instance UID (0020,000D)
- Accession Number (0008,0050)
- Issuer of Accession Number Sequence (0008,0051)
- Study Description (0008,1030)
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.