Photometric Interpretation (0028,0004)

What it holds

How pixel values are to be interpreted: MONOCHROME1, MONOCHROME2, RGB, YBR_FULL_422 and others.

In migrations and validation

Must stay consistent with the transfer syntax. Transcoding errors here produce inverted or color-shifted images that pass a count check but are clinically wrong, which is why sample visual checks belong in validation.

Related tags

• Transfer Syntax UID (0002,0010): TransferSyntaxUID, UI
• Bits Allocated (0028,0100): BitsAllocated, US

More pixel data tags

• Rows (0028,0010)
• Columns (0028,0011)
• Number of Frames (0028,0008)

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.