diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/DicomFolderDump.cpp b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/DicomFolderDump.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..de7b606c92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/DicomFolderDump.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/*===================================================================
+
+The Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)
+
+Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center,
+Division of Medical and Biological Informatics.
+All rights reserved.
+
+This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
+even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
+A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+
+See LICENSE.txt or http://www.mitk.org for details.
+
+===================================================================*/
+
+
+#include "MiniAppManager.h"
+
+#include "mitkDicomSeriesReader.h"
+#include "mitkProperties.h"
+// CTK
+#include "ctkCommandLineParser.h"
+#include "mitkIOUtil.h"
+
+
+int DicomFolderDump(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+  ctkCommandLineParser parser;
+  parser.setArgumentPrefix("--","-");
+  // Add command line argument names
+  parser.addArgument("help", "h",ctkCommandLineParser::Bool, "Show this help text");
+  parser.addArgument("xml", "x",ctkCommandLineParser::Bool, "Print a XML description of this modules command line interface");
+  parser.addArgument("input", "i", ctkCommandLineParser::String, "Input folder",us::Any(),false);
+  parser.addArgument("output", "o", ctkCommandLineParser::String, "Output folder (ending with /)",us::Any(),false);
+  parser.addArgument("filename", "f", ctkCommandLineParser::String, "Output filename (incl. .nrrd)",us::Any(),false);
+
+  map<string, us::Any> parsedArgs = parser.parseArguments(argc, argv);
+
+
+  // Show a help message
+  if ( parsedArgs.count("help") || parsedArgs.count("h"))
+  {
+    std::cout << parser.helpText();
+    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+  }
+
+  std::string inputFolder = us::any_cast<string>(parsedArgs["input"]);
+  std::string outputFolder = us::any_cast<string>(parsedArgs["output"]);
+  std::string outFileName = us::any_cast<string>(parsedArgs["filename"]);
+
+  //check if DICOMTags have been set as property for mitk::Image
+  mitk::DicomSeriesReader::FileNamesGrouping seriesInFiles = mitk::DicomSeriesReader::GetSeries( inputFolder, true );
+  std::list<mitk::Image::Pointer> images;
+  std::map<mitk::Image::Pointer, mitk::DicomSeriesReader::StringContainer> fileMap;
+
+  // TODO sort series UIDs, implementation of map iterator might differ on different platforms (or verify this is a standard topic??)
+  for (mitk::DicomSeriesReader::FileNamesGrouping::const_iterator seriesIter = seriesInFiles.begin();
+       seriesIter != seriesInFiles.end();
+       ++seriesIter)
+  {
+    mitk::DicomSeriesReader::StringContainer files = seriesIter->second.GetFilenames();
+
+    mitk::DataNode::Pointer node = mitk::DicomSeriesReader::LoadDicomSeries( files );
+
+    if (node.IsNotNull())
+    {
+      mitk::Image::Pointer image = dynamic_cast<mitk::Image*>( node->GetData() );
+
+      images.push_back( image );
+      fileMap.insert( std::pair<mitk::Image::Pointer, mitk::DicomSeriesReader::StringContainer>(image,files));
+    }
+  }
+
+  // WARN: EXPECT ONLY ONE ITEM PER FOLDER
+  for ( std::list<mitk::Image::Pointer>::const_iterator imageIter = images.begin();
+        imageIter != images.end();
+        ++imageIter )
+  {
+    const mitk::Image::Pointer image = *imageIter;
+    mitk::IOUtil::SaveImage(image,outputFolder + outFileName);
+  }
+  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
+RegisterDiffusionMiniApp(DicomFolderDump);
diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/files.cmake b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/files.cmake
index d8e72a7df5..26a8d5afb8 100644
--- a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/files.cmake
+++ b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/MiniApps/files.cmake
@@ -1,27 +1,28 @@
 set(CPP_FILES
     mitkDiffusionMiniApps.cpp
     MiniAppManager.cpp
 
     BatchedFolderRegistration.cpp
+    DicomFolderDump.cpp
     FileFormatConverter.cpp
     TensorReconstruction.cpp
     TensorDerivedMapsExtraction.cpp
     QballReconstruction.cpp
     DiffusionIndices.cpp
     ExtractImageStatistics.cpp
     CopyGeometry.cpp
     GibbsTracking.cpp
     StreamlineTracking.cpp
     FiberProcessing.cpp
     LocalDirectionalFiberPlausibility.cpp
     #TractogramAngularError.cpp
     FiberDirectionExtraction.cpp
     PeakExtraction.cpp
     PeaksAngularError.cpp
     MultishellMethods.cpp
     #FiberFoxProcessing.cpp
     ExportShImage.cpp
     NetworkCreation.cpp
     NetworkStatistics.cpp
     DwiDenoising.cpp
 )