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Joe.wang
Joe.wang

Reputation: 11791

How to identify a dicom data file

All, Forgive me I am a newbie in the DICOM, I want to know how to identify a DICOM data file. I am not sure whether the combination of PatientID + StudyID + SeriesNumber+ InstanceNumber could work? Please help me out.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 256

Answers (1)

Markus Sabin
Markus Sabin

Reputation: 4013

Two options:

According to the DICOM Standard the SOPInstanceUID (0008,0018) is sufficient to uniquely identify a DICOM object.

In practice, it turns out that you are better off using a hierarchical method based on the UIDs of the levels above. These are

Patient-ID (0010,0020) StudyInstanceUID (0020,000D) SeriesInstanceUID (0020,000E) SOPInstanceUID (0008,0018)

Upvotes: 2

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