Equipment
(0018,1020)
Software Versions
Keyword: SoftwareVersions
Manufacturer's designation of software version of the equipment that produced the composite instances.
Tag Attributes
- Tag ID
- (0018,1020)
- Compact
- 00181020
- Keyword
- SoftwareVersions
- VR
- LO — Long String
- VM
- 1-n
- Retired
- No
Module(s)
General Equipment Module
Engineering Notes
Crucial for correlating DICOM encoding defects with specific firmware versions. Log this for all production modalities.
Troubleshooting
After a firmware upgrade, new DICOM encoding issues (wrong tag values, missing tags) are often firmware-version-specific. Use this tag to identify affected units.