DICOM tag · De-identification

Burned In Annotation (0028,0301)

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

Tag(0028,0301)

KeywordBurnedInAnnotation

VRCS

VM1

What it holds

YES or NO: whether the pixel data contains burned-in text that identifies the patient.

In migrations and validation

Useful but unreliable: many devices leave it empty or set it incorrectly. Ultrasound, secondary captures and scanned documents should be checked for burned-in text regardless of this flag.

Related tags

Conversion Type (0008,0064): ConversionType, CS
Patient Identity Removed (0012,0062): PatientIdentityRemoved, CS

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De-identification Method (0012,0063)

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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