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DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

VR is AT

Value Representation "Attribute Tag"
Ordered pair of 16-bit unsigned integers that is the value of a Data Element Tag. Example: A Data Element Tag of (0018,00FF) would be encoded as a series of 4 bytes in a Little-Endian Transfer Syntax as 18H,00H,FFH,00H and in a Big-Endian Transfer Syntax as 00H,18H,00H,FFH.
Note:
The encoding of an AT value is exactly the same as the encoding of a Data Element Tag as defined in Section 7.
Character Set: not applicable
Size Restriction(s): 4 bytes fixed

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X

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