Talk to an engineer

DICOM tag · Series

Body Part Examined (0018,0015)

By Aviram Biton, Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS ·

Tag(0018,0015)
KeywordBodyPartExamined
VRCS
VM1

What it holds

The part of the body examined, using defined terms such as CHEST or HEAD.

In migrations and validation

Frequently empty or free-texted in older data. Matters for hanging protocols and for selecting research cohorts.

Related tags

More series tags

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.

Keep reading

How to validate a PACS migration

Drilling from study to series to instance.

All DICOM tags

The full list of attributes in this reference.

Planning a migration?

Tell us your source, destination and data volume. An engineer will walk you through how we would approach it.

Talk to an engineer