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DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

VR is UT

Value Representation "Unlimited Text"
A character string that may contain one or more paragraphs. It may contain the Graphic Character set and the Control Characters, CR, LF, FF, and ESC. It may be padded with trailing spaces, which may be ignored, but leading spaces are considered to be significant. Data Elements with this VR shall not be multi-valued and therefore character code 5CH (the BACKSLASH "\" in ISO-IR 6) may be used.
Character Set: Default Character Repertoire and/or as defined by (0008,0005).
Size Restriction(s): 232 - 2
Note:
limited only by the size of the maximum unsigned integer representable in a 32 bit VL field minus one, since FFFFFFFFH is reserved.

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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