Value Representation

FD Floating Point Double

Category
numeric
Max Length
8 bytes
Fixed Length
Yes
Source
PS3.5 §6.2

Definition

Double precision binary floating point number represented in IEEE 754:1985 64-bit Floating Point Number Format.

Attributes using FD

311 DICOM attributes declare this VR. Showing the first 24.

Working with FD in integration code

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