IPC
Imaging Procedure Control Segment
The IPC segment contains information about tasks that need to be performed in order to fulfill the request for imaging service. The information includes location, type and instance identification of equipment (acquisition modality) and stages (procedure steps).
Note: References, field names and definitions in this section were developed in collaboration with DICOM with the goal of keeping HL7 transmission of imaging procedure control information consistent with the DICOM Standard, available at http://medical.nema.org.
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| C.Len | Element | v2.7 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | - | EI | R | 1 | - | 01330 | IPC-1 | Accession Identifier | |
| 2 | - | - | EI | R | 1 | - | 01658 | IPC-2 | Requested Procedure ID | |
| 3 | - | - | EI | R | 1 | - | 01659 | IPC-3 | Study Instance UID | |
| 4 | - | - | EI | R | 1 | - | 01660 | IPC-4 | Scheduled Procedure Step ID | |
| 5 | - | - | CWE | O | 1 | 9999 | 01661 | IPC-5 | Modality | |
| 6 | - | - | CWE | O | * | 9999 | 01662 | IPC-6 | Protocol Code | |
| 7 | - | - | EI | O | 1 | - | 01663 | IPC-7 | Scheduled Station Name | |
| 8 | - | - | CWE | O | * | 9999 | 01664 | IPC-8 | Scheduled Procedure Step Location | |
| 9 | - | - | ST | O | 1 | - | 01665 | IPC-9 | Scheduled Station AE Title | Conf Length |
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