# DICOM image info

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dicom-image-info/15464>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** dicom\
**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dicom-image-info/15464 "2021-01-12T00:22:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ash\_Alarfaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ash_alarfaj/32/3327_2.png) [@Ash\_Alarfaj](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Ash_Alarfaj)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dicom-image-info/15464/1 "2021-01-12T00:22:53Z")

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Operating system: MAC  
Slicer version: 4.11 OR 4.10.2  
Expected behavior: show image field of view and reconstructed matrix size.  
Actual behavior: can not find these info in DICOM or image volume

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dicom-image-info/15464/2 "2021-01-12T00:53:03Z")

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You can turn on the ruler in the [view controller](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/user_interface.html#slice-view) and see the image size in the Volumes module, but no, there’s no option to overlay that information.

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/dicom-image-info/15464/3 "2021-01-12T03:10:21Z")

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You can write any text into a corner of any view as shown in [this example](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/Nightly/ScriptRepository#Display_text_in_a_3D_view_or_slice_view). With 5-10 more lines of Python code you can retrieve any information about the current volume and display it in a view corner.

What is your use case? How would you use this information? We have been planning to improve view annotations (DataProbe module) for a long time (see [Improve slice view annotations · Issue #4854 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/issues/4854)). If you can describe your requirements here then we’ll add a reference to this discussion and when we will take those into account when implementing the improvements.