What it holds
A globally unique identifier for the series.
In migrations and validation
Used for series-level validation of studies flagged as partial. If a migration tool regenerates UIDs, keep a mapping table, or references between objects (for example from presentation states and key images) will break.
Related tags
- Study Instance UID (0020,000D): StudyInstanceUID, UI
- SOP Instance UID (0008,0018): SOPInstanceUID, UI
More series tags
- Request Attributes Sequence (0040,0275)
- Modality (0008,0060)
- Series Number (0020,0011)
- Series Description (0008,103E)
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.