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DICOM tag · Series

Series Date (0008,0021)

Tag(0008,0021)
KeywordSeriesDate
VRDA
VM1

What it holds

The date the series started.

In migrations and validation

Usually equals Study Date, but not always: a study that runs past midnight or has series added later can span days. When shifting dates for de-identification, shift every date in the object by the same offset.

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More series 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.

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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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