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Manufacturer's Model Name (0008,1090)

By Aviram Biton, Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS ·

Tag(0008,1090)
KeywordManufacturerModelName
VRLO
VM1

What it holds

The equipment model.

In migrations and validation

Combined with Manufacturer, narrows a data problem down to a specific scanner model or software version.

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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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