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DICOM Tag

Metadata element that is associated with each DICOM image object. It has the following most important parts:

1. A tag that identifies the attribute, usually in the format (XXXX,XXXX) with hexadecimal numbers, and may be divided further into DICOM Group Number and DICOM Element Number.

2. A DICOM Value Representation (VR) that describes the data type and format of the attribute value.