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3 What does the series completion status mean?
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6 Each DICOM series is assigned a completion status by Orthanc. This
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7 completion status can list as ``Unknown``, ``Missing``,
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8 ``Inconsistent`` or ``Complete``.
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10 The status is meant to convey the completeness of the series, as known
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11 by Orthanc.
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13 As a general rule, since there is no generic DICOM tag that contains
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14 the number of DICOM instances that are contained in a given series,
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15 and since there is no generic tag that contains the index of a DICOM
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16 instance inside its parent series, it is in general impossible to know
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17 if a series is complete in terms of its instances. This is the meaning
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18 of the ``Unknown`` status displayed by Orthanc.
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20 However, for some types of images (such as cardiac MRI), the DICOM
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21 modules might specify a tag that contains this information. If such a
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22 tag is available for a series, Orthanc will either report a
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23 ``Complete`` status (if all the instances have been received),
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24 ``Incomplete`` (if some instances are [still] missing) or
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25 ``Inconsistent`` if there is an error inside the numbering of the
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26 instances.