diff --git a/invesalius/reader/dicom.py b/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
index bd5ad43..d07d26e 100644
--- a/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
+++ b/invesalius/reader/dicom.py
@@ -1295,7 +1295,10 @@ class Parser():
         if (data):
             encoding = self.GetEncoding()
             # Returns a unicode decoded in the own dicom encoding
-            return data.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+            try:
+                return data.decode(encoding, 'replace')
+            except(UnicodeEncodeError):
+                return data
         return ""
 
 
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