Value Representation

AS Age String

Category
string
Max Length
4 bytes
Fixed Length
Yes
Source
PS3.5 §6.2

Definition

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.

Attributes using AS

2 DICOM attributes declare this VR.

Working with AS in integration code

VR-aware transformations are where most DICOM integration bugs hide — truncating a PN's 5-component structure, misaligning OB padding, or dropping leading zeros on IS. Saga IT builds production DICOM pipelines that respect VR semantics across Mirth Connect transformers, DIMSE gateways, and cloud DICOM services.