DICOM tag · Pixel data

Rows (0028,0010)

By Aviram Biton, Founder and Technical Lead, DICOMATICS · Published November 14, 2026

Tag(0028,0010)

KeywordRows

VRUS

VM1

What it holds

Number of rows (height) in the image or frame.

In migrations and validation

With Columns, Bits Allocated and Number of Frames, gives the uncompressed size of an object, which is how archive volume is estimated before migration.

Related tags

Columns (0028,0011): Columns, US
Bits Allocated (0028,0100): BitsAllocated, US
Number of Frames (0028,0008): NumberOfFrames, IS

More pixel data tags

Photometric Interpretation (0028,0004)

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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