What it holds
Free-text description of the study, usually the procedure name.
In migrations and validation
Every site names procedures differently, which breaks hanging protocols and prefetch rules in a new PACS. Mapping descriptions to a standard such as the RadLex Playbook is often part of a migration.
Related tags
- Requested Procedure Description (0032,1060): RequestedProcedureDescription, LO
- Modality (0008,0060): Modality, CS
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.