# Is there a way to look all metadata information of a Dicom file like itk-snap did

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**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** dicom\
**Created:** [July 10, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-look-all-metadata-information-of-a-dicom-file-like-itk-snap-did/37304 "2024-07-10T14:21:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![lucarqi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lucarqi/32/77276_2.png) [@lucarqi](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lucarqi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-look-all-metadata-information-of-a-dicom-file-like-itk-snap-did/37304/1 "2024-07-10T14:21:15Z")

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I’m new to 3D Slicer. ITK-snap can easily read “Image Metadata” like follow(anonymous) :

 ![2dd9d714d6d196d8e12303065a060b8b](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/1/9/19819ec6f56de6751fa0a32bfa41533b78c212e6.png)

I can find basic information , when I load a Dicom file in follows(anonymous):

 ![ba888c68793f6e2c4c5d40984da35a43](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/5/1/51bb2ae0e87892c8f28307e44bc9a11d5e84f56b.png)

But, there still miss a lot of information compared to ITK-snap.  
So, there is a simple way to look all information like ITK-snap did?

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**Author:** ![jamesobutler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jamesobutler/32/7511_2.png) [@jamesobutler](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jamesobutler)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-look-all-metadata-information-of-a-dicom-file-like-itk-snap-did/37304/2 "2024-07-10T14:29:32Z")

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There is a section in the DICOM module documentation regarding how to view the metadata. See linked section below:

[https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user\_guide/modules/dicom.html#view-dicom-metadata](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/modules/dicom.html#view-dicom-metadata)

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**Author:** ![lucarqi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lucarqi/32/77276_2.png) [@lucarqi](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lucarqi)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2024, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-look-all-metadata-information-of-a-dicom-file-like-itk-snap-did/37304/3 "2024-07-11T06:55:34Z")

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Thanks. I get metadata in “DICOM database” page, just right click the patient , select “view DICOM metadata”