diff --git a/CMakeExternals/ITK.cmake b/CMakeExternals/ITK.cmake
index 779cfb7ec8..8a634937f7 100644
--- a/CMakeExternals/ITK.cmake
+++ b/CMakeExternals/ITK.cmake
@@ -1,72 +1,72 @@
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # ITK
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 # Sanity checks
 if(DEFINED ITK_DIR AND NOT EXISTS ${ITK_DIR})
   message(FATAL_ERROR "ITK_DIR variable is defined but corresponds to non-existing directory")
 endif()
 
 set(proj ITK)
 set(proj_DEPENDENCIES GDCM)
 
 if(MITK_USE_OpenCV)
   list(APPEND proj_DEPENDENCIES OpenCV)
 endif()
 
 set(ITK_DEPENDS ${proj})
 
 if(NOT DEFINED ITK_DIR)
 
   set(additional_cmake_args )
   if(MINGW)
     set(additional_cmake_args
         -DCMAKE_USE_WIN32_THREADS:BOOL=ON
         -DCMAKE_USE_PTHREADS:BOOL=OFF)
   endif()
 
   list(APPEND additional_cmake_args
        -DUSE_WRAP_ITK:BOOL=OFF
       )
 
   if(MITK_USE_OpenCV)
     list(APPEND additional_cmake_args
          -DModule_ITKVideoBridgeOpenCV:BOOL=ON
          -DOpenCV_DIR:PATH=${OpenCV_DIR}
         )
   endif()
 
   # Keep the behaviour of ITK 4.3 which by default turned on ITK Review
   # see MITK bug #17338
   list(APPEND additional_cmake_args
     -DModule_ITKReview:BOOL=ON
   )
 
-  set(ITK_PATCH_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -DTEMPLATE_FILE:FILEPATH=${MITK_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeExternals/EmptyFileForPatching.dummy -P ${MITK_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeExternals/PatchITK-4.5.1.cmake)
+  set(ITK_PATCH_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -DTEMPLATE_FILE:FILEPATH=${MITK_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeExternals/EmptyFileForPatching.dummy -P ${MITK_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeExternals/PatchITK-4.7.0.cmake)
 
   ExternalProject_Add(${proj}
      SOURCE_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${proj}-src
      BINARY_DIR ${proj}-build
      PREFIX ${proj}-cmake
-     URL ${MITK_THIRDPARTY_DOWNLOAD_PREFIX_URL}/InsightToolkit-4.5.1-3e550bf8.tar.gz
-     URL_MD5 80e433ffc0e81cdc19a03dd02a3c329b
+     ${MITK_THIRDPARTY_DOWNLOAD_PREFIX_URL}/InsightToolkit-4.7.0-1d4dcc92.tar.gz
+     URL_MD5 d689ccb115d0a8278e9f2b93392c1df7
      INSTALL_COMMAND ""
      PATCH_COMMAND ${ITK_PATCH_COMMAND}
      CMAKE_GENERATOR ${gen}
      CMAKE_ARGS
        ${ep_common_args}
        ${additional_cmake_args}
        -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF
        -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=OFF
        -DITK_USE_SYSTEM_GDCM:BOOL=ON
        -DGDCM_DIR:PATH=${GDCM_DIR}
      DEPENDS ${proj_DEPENDENCIES}
     )
 
   set(ITK_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${proj}-build)
 
 else()
 
   mitkMacroEmptyExternalProject(${proj} "${proj_DEPENDENCIES}")
 
 endif()
diff --git a/CMakeExternals/PatchITK-4.7.0.cmake b/CMakeExternals/PatchITK-4.7.0.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3c3939c054
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMakeExternals/PatchITK-4.7.0.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Called by ITK.cmake (ExternalProject_Add) as a patch for ITK to work with external GDCM 2.2.1
+
+set(path "Modules/ThirdParty/GDCM/src/CMakeLists.txt")
+file(STRINGS ${path} contents NEWLINE_CONSUME)
+string(REPLACE "SFF)" "SFF gdcmDSED gdcmCommon)" contents ${contents})
+set(CONTENTS ${contents})
+configure_file(${TEMPLATE_FILE} ${path} @ONLY)
+