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parent

2006.52

name

MESSAGE

number

2006.5204

Fields

#	Name	Location	Type	Details	Index	Description
.01	tag	0;1	FREE TEXT			The value of this field is a 'tag' as defined in the DICOM element dictionary. Such a tag consists of 4 hexadecimal digits, a comma, and 4 more hexadecimal digits. A 'tag' uniquely identifies a DICOM data element.
2	name	0;2	FREE TEXT			The value of this field is the name of a DICOM data element. Names of DICOM data elements are defined in the DICOM standard. The 'tag' in this entry uniquely identifies the DICOM data element. The DICOM standard specifies the name for this data element.
3	scuscp	0;3	FREE TEXT			SCU stands for Service Class User; SCP stands for Service Class Provider. The value of this field consists of two numeric parts, separated by a slash. The first piece is a code that specified whether or not the data element in this entry is required for an SCU; the second piece is a code that specifies whether or not this data element is required for an SCP The 'required' codes may be: 1: Always required 2: Required, but may be left 'empty' when not known 3: Optional Any of these numeric codes may be followed by a letter C to indicate that the classification is conditional. When this is the case, the DICOM standard spells out the conditions when the data element is required, and when not.
4	value	0;4	FREE TEXT			The value of this field, if non-empty, is the value that will be transmitted for this data element. Normally, a value would be derived from the information that pertains to the patient or study at hand, in which case this field is left empty, but sometimes the value to be transmitted is a fixed value, in which case a value is entered in this field.
5	pointer	0;5	NUMERIC			The value of this field is a pointer to the entry in this list of data elements that is the start of the sequence to which the current data element belongs. If the current data element is not part of a sequence, this field will be left empty.