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DICOM tag · Study

Station Name (0008,1010)

Tag(0008,1010)
KeywordStationName
VRSH
VM1

What it holds

The name of the modality or workstation that created the image.

In migrations and validation

Helps trace a problem back to a specific scanner, for example one that writes bad dates or nonstandard tags. Can identify a site, so it is often removed for research datasets.

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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.

About the author

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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