The current implementation of the DICOM-Reader cannot create an mitkImage from a DICOM-Image if the spacing is 0.
The problem is the method DICOMImageBlockDescriptor::FixupSpacing() that tries to overwrite the spacing that GDCM/DCMTK/ITK has defined with the spacing from the actual DICOM tags.
If the tags define a spacing of 0 in any direction, this causes the resulting mitkImage to be NULL although it could actually be displayed.