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1 What do the various status displayed in a series header mean?
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4 A series can be assigned a status by Orthanc. I can list as *unknown*, *missing*, *inconsistent* or *complete*.
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6 The status is meant to convey the completeness of the series, as known by Orthanc.
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8 As a general rule, since there is no generic DICOM tag that contains the number of DICOM instances that
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9 are contained in a given series, and since there is no generic tag that contains the index of a DICOM
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10 instance inside its parent series, it is in general impossible to know if a series is complete in terms
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11 of its instances. This is the meaning of the *Unknown* status displayed by Orthanc.
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13 However, for some types of images (such as cardiac MRI), the DICOM modules might specify a tag that contains
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14 this information. If such a tag is available for a series, Orthanc will either report a *Complete* status
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15 (if all the instances have been received), *Incomplete* (if some instances are [still] missing) or *Inconsistent*
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16 if there is an error inside the numbering of the instances.
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