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DICOM tag · Study

Number of Study Related Instances (0020,1208)

Tag(0020,1208)
KeywordNumberOfStudyRelatedInstances
VRIS
VM1

What it holds

The number of objects (images and other instances) in the study, returned by the PACS in study-level queries.

In migrations and validation

The key count for spotting studies that arrived with missing images. Compare it between source and target for every study; drill into series and instance level only for the ones that differ.

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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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