# MRI abdominal fat slice quantification

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/mri-abdominal-fat-slice-quantification/11029>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 7, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/mri-abdominal-fat-slice-quantification/11029 "2020-04-07T14:01:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/mri-abdominal-fat-slice-quantification/11029/2 "2020-04-07T15:36:15Z")

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This is an oblique acquisition, so you need to align the view to the data.

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[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Coordinate\_systems](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Coordinate_systems)

> [@Rotate to volume plane](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/rotate-to-volume-plane/8032):
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> Maybe someone has already asked this question before, but I could not find it in one of the topics on this forum. I’ve noticed that sometimes when I load a serie of dicom’s that they are not always properly displayed in the viewports. What I mean is that they are rotated more or less, so I have to use the ‘Rotate to volume plane’ function to correct this. I try to make it a routine do check this first before doing anything else, but is there a specific reason why this happens and if yes, is it …

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