# Why I can not import DICOM?

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/why-i-can-not-import-dicom/204>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/why-i-can-not-import-dicom/204 "2017-04-27T02:06:30Z")\
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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:** [February 21, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/why-i-can-not-import-dicom/204/15 "2020-02-21T14:49:13Z")

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Starting from today, Slicer Preview Release (revision 28783) should be able to import DICOM files from any folder. See announcement and more details here: [Special characters in filenames and strings are now allowed](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/special-characters-in-filenames-and-strings-are-now-allowed/10375)

It is all very new and probably it will take a while to get all problems ironed out, but it should work.

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