DICOM Terms and Abbreviations

VR is OB

Value Representation "Other Byte String"
A string of bytes where the encoding of the contents is specified by the negotiated Transfer Syntax. OB is a VR which is insensitive to Little/Big Endian byte ordering (see Section 7.3). The string of bytes shall be padded with a single trailing NULL byte value (00H) when necessary to achieve even length.
Character Set: not applicable
Size Restriction(s): see Transfer Syntax definition

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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