# MRI DWI images load with wrong orientation

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/mri-dwi-images-load-with-wrong-orientation/482 "2017-06-12T14:20:51Z")\
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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:** [June 12, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/mri-dwi-images-load-with-wrong-orientation/482/2 "2017-06-12T14:47:49Z")

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Slice viewers in Slicer are by default oriented in anatomical planes. If your volumes are acquired in different plane orientation then click the “Rotate to volume planes” button in the slice viewer controller widget to show them in their acquisition planes.

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