What it holds
The institution where the equipment that produced the images is located.
In migrations and validation
Useful for identifying the source site in a consolidation, especially when Issuer of Patient ID is empty. Typically removed in de-identification.
Related tags
- Station Name (0008,1010): StationName, SH
- Issuer of Patient ID (0010,0021): IssuerOfPatientID, LO
More study tags
- Study Instance UID (0020,000D)
- Accession Number (0008,0050)
- Issuer of Accession Number Sequence (0008,0051)
- Study Date (0008,0020)
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.