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DICOM UID ROOT

number

2006.15

location

^MAGD(2006.15,

description

+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Property of the US Government. | | No permission to copy or redistribute this software is given. | | Use of unreleased versions of this software requires the user | | to execute a written test agreement with the VistA Imaging | | Development Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, | | telephone (301) 734-0100. | | | | The Food and Drug Administration classifies this software as | | a medical device. As such, it may not be changed in any way. | | Modifications to this software may result in an adulterated | | medical device under 21CFR820, the use of which is considered | | to be a violation of US Federal Statutes. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ The purpose of this table is to specify the first groups of digits for the unique object identifiers that will be generated by the software. Note that this "root" for the UIDs is organization-specific, and that the FOIA release of this software will only include data for this table for VA sites. See the DICOM Standard (www.nema.org/dicom) PS 3.8 Annex A for instructions on how to obtain a valid UID root.

Fields

#	Name	Location	Type	Details	Index	Description
.01	owner(+)	0;1	FREE TEXT		B	The value of this field is a string that identifies the organization to which the UID root code that is stored in this record is assigned.
1	uid root(+)	UID ROOT;1	FREE TEXT			The value of this field is a string that represents this organization's UID root code. Values for this code must be obtained from the International Standards Organization (ISO) or from their national representative bodies (for the USA, this is ANSI). The format of an UID root code looks like a list of integer numbers, separated by periods. For VA hospitals, the value for this field will be automatically entered. Other organizations first need to obtain their "root code" from the appropriate standards organization, and then manually enter the assigned value into this field.
2	last datetime uid generated	1;1	DATE-TIME			This field contains the date and time that the last DICOM UID was generated.
3	tick	1;2	NUMERIC			This field is incremented every time a new DICOM UID is generated. This field is reset to one ('1') daily when a new DICOM UID is generated for the first time during the day. This field supplements LAST DATETIME UID GENERATED field (2006.15,2) to prevent duplicate DICOM UIDs within one second interval of generation requests.