Default Value Representation Tag Table

The table below contains the default values for the Value Representations supported by DICOM.

For more information on the structure of this table, refer to DICOMVR.

Code	Name	Length	Restriction	UnitSize
VR_AE	Application Entity	16	VR_STRING \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_AS	Age String	4	VR_TEXT \| VR_FIXED	1
VR_AT	Attribute Tag	4	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	4
VR_CS	Code String	16	VR_STRING \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_DA	Date	8	VR_TEXT \| VR_FIXED	1
VR_DS	Decimal String	16	VR_STRING \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_DT	Date Time	26	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_FD	Floating Point Double	8	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	8
VR_FL	Floating Point Single	4	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	4
VR_IS	Integer String	12	VR_STRING \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_LO	Long String	64	VR_STRING \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_LT	Long Text	10240	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_OB	Other Byte String	0	VR_BINARY \| VR_ANY	1
VR_OD	Other Double String	0xFFFFFFF8	VR_BINARY \| VR_MAXIMUM	8
VR_OF	Other Float String	0xFFFFFFFC	VR_BINARY \| VR_MAXIMUM	4
VR_OW	Other Word String	0	VR_BINARY \| VR_ANY	2
VR_PN	Person Name	64	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM_GROUP	1
VR_SH	Short String	16	VR_STRING \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_SL	Signed Long	4	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	4
VR_SQ	Sequence of Items	0	VR_NOT_APPLICABLE	1
VR_SS	Signed Short	2	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	2
VR_ST	Short Text	1024	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_TM	Time	16	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_UC	Unlimited Characters	0xFFFFFFFE	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_UI	Unique Identifier	64	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_UL	Unsigned Long	4	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	4
VR_UN	Unknown	0	VR_BINARY \| VR_ANY	1
VR_UR	Universal Resource Identifier or Universal Resource Locator(URI/URL)	0xFFFFFFFE	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1
VR_US	Unsigned Short	2	VR_BINARY \| VR_FIXED	2
VR_UT	Unlimited Text	0xFFFFFFFE	VR_TEXT \| VR_MAXIMUM	1