diff --git a/Core/Code/IO/mitkDicomSeriesReader.txx b/Core/Code/IO/mitkDicomSeriesReader.txx
index 7a7d3b4..7d5478a 100644
--- a/Core/Code/IO/mitkDicomSeriesReader.txx
+++ b/Core/Code/IO/mitkDicomSeriesReader.txx
@@ -82,6 +82,24 @@ void DicomSeriesReader::LoadDicom(const StringContainer &filenames, DataNode &no
         image->InitializeByItk(reader->GetOutput(), 1, volume_count);
         image->SetImportVolume(reader->GetOutput()->GetBufferPointer(), 0u);
 
+        MITK_DEBUG << "Copy MetaDataDictionary...";
+        const itk::MetaDataDictionary& dict = io->GetMetaDataDictionary();
+
+        for (itk::MetaDataDictionary::ConstIterator key = dict.Begin(); key != dict.End(); ++key)
+        {
+          const itk::MetaDataObjectBase* value = key->second;
+          std::stringstream ss;
+          if (value)
+          {
+            value->Print(ss);
+          }
+          MITK_DEBUG << key->first << ":" << key->second;
+
+          node.SetProperty( key->first.c_str() , mitk::StringProperty::New( ss.str() ) );
+
+        }
+
+
         MITK_DEBUG << "Volume dimension: [" << image->GetDimension(0) << ", " 
                                             << image->GetDimension(1) << ", " 
                                             << image->GetDimension(2) << ", " 
@@ -153,7 +171,12 @@ Image::Pointer DicomSeriesReader::LoadDICOMByITK( const StringContainer& filenam
 
   reader->SetFileNames(filenames);
   reader->Update();
-  image->InitializeByItk(reader->GetOutput());
+
+  MITK_INFO << "Copy MetaDataDictionary...";
+  const itk::MetaDataDictionary& dict = io->GetMetaDataDictionary();
+  dict.Print(std::cout);
+
+  image->InitializeByItk(reader->GetOutput()); // TODO read out here.
   image->SetImportVolume(reader->GetOutput()->GetBufferPointer());