What it holds
The time the study started, HHMMSS with optional fractional seconds.
In migrations and validation
Helps tell apart multiple studies of the same patient on the same day. Formats vary in precision between systems, so compare at the minute or second level, not as raw strings.
Related tags
- Study Date (0008,0020): StudyDate, 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.