diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/IODataStructures/TbssImages/mitkTbssGradientImage.cpp b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/IODataStructures/TbssImages/mitkTbssGradientImage.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 345e30ec1e..0000000000
--- a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/IODataStructures/TbssImages/mitkTbssGradientImage.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,109 +0,0 @@
-/*=========================================================================
-
-Program:   Medical Imaging & Interaction Toolkit
-Language:  C++
-Date:      $Date: 2008-02-08 11:19:03 +0100 (Fr, 08 Feb 2008) $
-Version:   $Revision: 11989 $
-
-Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center, Division of Medical and
-Biological Informatics. All rights reserved.
-See MITKCopyright.txt or http://www.mitk.org/copyright.html for details.
-
-This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
-the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
-PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
-
-=========================================================================*/
-
-#ifndef __mitkTbssGradientImage__cpp
-#define __mitkTbssGradientImage__cpp
-
-
-#include "mitkTbssGradientImage.h"
-#include "itkImageRegionIterator.h"
-#include "itkImageRegionConstIterator.h"
-#include "mitkImageCast.h"
-
-
-
-
-mitk::TbssGradientImage::TbssGradientImage()
-{
-
-}
-
-
-void mitk::TbssGradientImage::InitializeFromVectorImage()
-{
-  if(!m_Image)
-  {
-    MITK_INFO << "TBSS Gradient Image could not be initialized. Set all members first!" << std::endl;
-    return;
-  }
-
-
-  typedef itk::Image<float,3> ImgType;
-  ImgType::Pointer img = ImgType::New();
-  img->SetSpacing( m_Image->GetSpacing() );   // Set the image spacing
-  img->SetOrigin( m_Image->GetOrigin() );     // Set the image origin
-  img->SetDirection( m_Image->GetDirection() );  // Set the image direction
-  img->SetLargestPossibleRegion( m_Image->GetLargestPossibleRegion());
-  img->SetBufferedRegion( m_Image->GetLargestPossibleRegion() );
-  img->Allocate();
-
-  InitializeByItk( img.GetPointer(), 1, 3 );
-
-  itk::ImageRegionIterator<ImgType> itw (img, img->GetLargestPossibleRegion() );
-  itw = itw.Begin();
-
-  itk::ImageRegionConstIterator<ImageType> itr (m_Image, m_Image->GetLargestPossibleRegion() );
-  itr = itr.Begin();
-
-  while(!itr.IsAtEnd())
-  {
-    itw.Set(itr.Get().GetElement(0));
-    ++itr;
-    ++itw;
-  }
-
-
-  SetImportVolume(img->GetBufferPointer());//, 0, 0, CopyMemory);
-
-  m_DisplayIndex = 0;
-  MITK_INFO << "Tbss-Image successfully initialized.";
-
-}
-
-
-void mitk::TbssGradientImage::SetDisplayIndexForRendering(int displayIndex)
-{
-  MITK_INFO << "displayindex: " << displayIndex;
-  int index = displayIndex;
-  int vecLength = m_Image->GetVectorLength();
-  index = index > vecLength-1 ? vecLength-1 : index;
-  if( m_DisplayIndex != index )
-  {
-    typedef itk::Image<float,3> ImgType;
-    ImgType::Pointer img = ImgType::New();
-    CastToItkImage<ImgType>(this, img);
-
-    itk::ImageRegionIterator<ImgType> itw (img, img->GetLargestPossibleRegion() );
-    itw = itw.Begin();
-
-    itk::ImageRegionConstIterator<ImageType> itr (m_Image, m_Image->GetLargestPossibleRegion() );
-    itr = itr.Begin();
-
-    while(!itr.IsAtEnd())
-    {
-      itw.Set(itr.Get().GetElement(index));
-      ++itr;
-      ++itw;
-    }
-  }
-
-  m_DisplayIndex = index;
-}
-
-
-
-#endif /* __mitkTbssGradientImage__cpp */
diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/IODataStructures/TbssImages/mitkTbssGradientImage.h b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/IODataStructures/TbssImages/mitkTbssGradientImage.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 33a847d103..0000000000
--- a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/IODataStructures/TbssImages/mitkTbssGradientImage.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-/*=========================================================================
-
-Program:   Medical Imaging & Interaction Toolkit
-Language:  C++
-Date:      $Date: 2008-02-07 17:17:57 +0100 (Do, 07 Feb 2008) $
-Version:   $Revision: 11989 $
-
-Copyright (c) German Cancer Research Center, Division of Medical and
-Biological Informatics. All rights reserved.
-See MITKCopyright.txt or http://www.mitk.org/copyright.html for details.
-
-This software is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
-the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
-PURPOSE.  See the above copyright notices for more information.
-
-=========================================================================*/
-
-
-#ifndef __mitkTbssGradientImage__h
-#define __mitkTbssGradientImage__h
-
-#include "mitkImage.h"
-#include "itkVectorImage.h"
-#include "mitkImageCast.h"
-#include "MitkDiffusionImagingExports.h"
-
-namespace mitk 
-{
-
-  /**
-  * \brief this class encapsulates tbss gradient images (vectorimages not
-  * yet supported by mitkImage)
-  */
-
-  class MitkDiffusionImaging_EXPORT TbssGradientImage : public Image
-  {
-
-  public:
-
-    typedef itk::VectorImage<int, 3> ImageType;
-
-
-    typedef itk::Index<3> IndexType;
-    //typedef typename std::vector <Index<3> > RoiType;
-
-    mitkClassMacro( TbssGradientImage, Image )
-    itkNewMacro(Self)
-
-
-    //void SetRequestedRegionToLargestPossibleReg tbssRoi->SetTbssType(mitk::TbssImage<char>::ROI);ion();
-    //bool RequestedRegionIsOutsideOfTheBufferedRegion();
-    //virtual bool VerifyRequestedRegion();
-    //void SetRequestedRegion(itk::DataObject *data);
-
-    ImageType::Pointer GetImage()
-    {
-      return m_Image;
-    }
-    void SetImage(ImageType::Pointer image )
-    {
-      this->m_Image = image;
-    }
-
-
-    void InitializeFromImage()
-    {
-      MITK_INFO << "make an mitk image that can be shown by mitk";
-      this->InitializeByItk(m_Image.GetPointer(),1,1);
-    }
-
-
-    void InitializeFromVectorImage();
-
-    void SetDisplayIndexForRendering(int displayIndex);
-
-
-
-  protected:
-
-    TbssGradientImage();
-
-    virtual ~TbssGradientImage(){}
-
-    ImageType::Pointer m_Image;
-
-    int m_DisplayIndex;
-
-  };
-
-
-
-} // namespace mitk
-
-#endif /* __mitkTbssGradientImage__h */