UI Unique Identifier (UID)

Definition

A character string containing a UID that is used to uniquely identify a wide variety of items. The UID is a series of numeric components separated by the period character (".").

Attributes using UI

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

• (0002,0002) Media Storage SOP Class UID MediaStorageSOPClassUID
• (0002,0003) Media Storage SOP Instance UID MediaStorageSOPInstanceUID
• (0002,0010) Transfer Syntax UID TransferSyntaxUID
• (0002,0012) Implementation Class UID ImplementationClassUID
• (0002,0032) RTV Communication SOP Class UID RTVCommunicationSOPClassUID
• (0002,0033) RTV Communication SOP Instance UID RTVCommunicationSOPInstanceUID
• (0002,0100) Private Information Creator UID PrivateInformationCreatorUID
• (0004,1432) Private Record UID PrivateRecordUID
• (0004,1510) Referenced SOP Class UID in File ReferencedSOPClassUIDInFile
• (0004,1511) Referenced SOP Instance UID in File ReferencedSOPInstanceUIDInFile
• (0004,1512) Referenced Transfer Syntax UID in File ReferencedTransferSyntaxUIDInFile
• (0004,151A) Referenced Related General SOP Class UID in File ReferencedRelatedGeneralSOPClassUIDInFile
• (0008,0014) Instance Creator UID InstanceCreatorUID
• (0008,0016) SOP Class UID SOPClassUID
• (0008,0017) Acquisition UID AcquisitionUID
• (0008,0018) SOP Instance UID SOPInstanceUID
• (0008,0019) Pyramid UID PyramidUID
• (0008,001A) Related General SOP Class UID RelatedGeneralSOPClassUID
• (0008,001B) Original Specialized SOP Class UID OriginalSpecializedSOPClassUID
• (0008,0058) Failed SOP Instance UID List FailedSOPInstanceUIDList
• (0008,0062) SOP Classes in Study SOPClassesInStudy
• (0008,010C) Coding Scheme UID CodingSchemeUID
• (0008,010D) Context Group Extension Creator UID ContextGroupExtensionCreatorUID
• (0008,0117) Context UID ContextUID

Working with UI in integration code

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