Accession Number (0008,0050)

What it holds

The identifier of the order or visit in the RIS that this study fulfills.

In migrations and validation

Ties images to the order and report. Expect duplicates, blanks, site prefixes and values truncated to the 16-character limit of the SH data type. Some PACS group studies by accession number, so two studies sharing one accession can end up merged in the target. Clean and reconcile accessions against the RIS before migrating.

Related tags

• Issuer of Accession Number Sequence (0008,0051): IssuerOfAccessionNumberSequence, SQ
• Requested Procedure ID (0040,1001): RequestedProcedureID, SH
• Study Instance UID (0020,000D): StudyInstanceUID, UI

More study tags

• Study Date (0008,0020)
• Study Time (0008,0030)
• Study Description (0008,1030)
• Study ID (0020,0010)

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.