DICOMAttributeFormat

Application Entity.

A string of characters with leading and trailing spaces (20H) being non-significant. The value made of 16 spaces, meaning "no application name specified", shall not be used.

Age String.

A string of characters with one of the following formats -- nnnD, nnnW, nnnM, nnnY; where nnn shall contain the number of days for D, weeks for W, months for M, or years for Y.

Example: "018M" would represent an age of 18 months.

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.

Code String.

Date.

Delimitation.

Decimal String.

A string of characters representing either a fixed point number or a floating point number. A fixed point number shall contain only the characters 0-9 with an optional leading "+" or "-" and an optional "." to mark the decimal point. A floating point number shall be conveyed as defined in ANSI X3.9, with an "E" or "e" to indicate the start of the exponent. Decimal Strings may be padded with leading or trailing spaces. Embedded spaces are not allowed.

Date Time.

Floating Point Single (32-bit).

Floating Point Double (64-bit).

Integer String.

Long String.

Long Text.

Other Byte String.

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Other Float String.

Other Word String.

Person Name.

Short String.

Signed long integer (32-bit).

Sequence of items.

Signed short integer (16-bit).

Short Text.

Time.

Unique Identifier.

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Unsigned long integer (32-bit).

Unknown.

Unsigned short integer (16-bit).

Unlimited Text.