What it holds
Identifies which system or organization issued the accession number.
In migrations and validation
Rarely populated in older data. In multi-site consolidations it distinguishes identical accession numbers that came from different RIS systems.
Related tags
- Accession Number (0008,0050): AccessionNumber, SH
More study tags
- Study Instance UID (0020,000D)
- Study Date (0008,0020)
- Study Time (0008,0030)
- 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.