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DICOM tag · Study

Study Time (0008,0030)

Tag(0008,0030)
KeywordStudyTime
VRTM
VM1

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.

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More study 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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