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Processing applications may be familiar with extracting person names from the header metadata of DICOM images. Some person names in DICOM RDSRs are encoded in the header metadata, others are encoded in the structured content tree. Applications will likely need to combine both types of information.
For certain roles (i.e., Referring Physician, Consulting Physician, Reading Physician, Physician of Record) DICOM captures the person identity in the General Study Module, thus they are present in the Instance Attributes of the RDSR objects.
The names of the persons involved in the creation of the technical data of the RDSR can be encoded using the Attribute Person Name (0040,A123) defined in the Identified Person or Device Macro Attributes included in the Author Observer Sequence (0040,A078) and in the Participant Sequence (0040,A07A) of the SR Document General Module.
The Performing Physician's Name (0008,1050) and the Operator's Name (0008,1070), which are defined in the General Series Module of the Image IODs, are not defined in the RDSR header. Refer to the next Section.
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