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DICOM tag · Study

Requested Procedure Description (0032,1060)

Tag(0032,1060)
KeywordRequestedProcedureDescription
VRLO
VM1

What it holds

The description of the procedure as ordered, usually copied from the modality worklist.

In migrations and validation

Often more consistent than Study Description because it comes from the order catalog. Compare the two when cleaning procedure names.

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More study tags

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.

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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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