DICOM PS3.17 2018a - Explanatory Information

NN.4 Specimen Identification Examples
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## NN.4 Specimen Identification Examples

### NN.4.1 One Specimen Per Container

In normal clinical practice, when there is one specimen per container, the value of the specimen identifier and the value of the container identifier will be the same. In Figure NN.4-1, each slide is prepared from a single tissue sample from a single block (cassette).

Figure NN.4-1. Sampling for one specimen per container

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DICOM PS3.17 2018a - Explanatory Information