Patient's Name (0010,0010)

What it holds

The patient's name, stored as components separated by carets: family^given^middle^prefix^suffix.

In migrations and validation

Name formats drift across systems: different caret placement, uppercase vs mixed case, trailing carets, and nicknames. Never use the name alone to match patients. Normalize it for comparison, but match on identifiers first.

Related tags

• Patient ID (0010,0020): PatientID, LO
• Patient's Birth Date (0010,0030): PatientBirthDate, DA
• Patient's Sex (0010,0040): PatientSex, CS

More patient tags

• Issuer of Patient ID (0010,0021)
• Other Patient IDs Sequence (0010,1002)
• Patient's Age (0010,1010)

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.