diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Explicit.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Explicit.cs
index a4e9c428..cc2c4cb6 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Explicit.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Tensor.Explicit.cs
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_BOOL);
                 return *(bool*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_INT8);
                 return *(sbyte*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_UINT8);
                 return *(byte*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_UINT16);
                 return *(ushort*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -46,6 +50,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_INT16);
                 return *(short*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -55,6 +60,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_INT32);
                 return *(int*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -64,6 +70,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_UINT32);
                 return *(uint*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -73,6 +80,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_INT64);
                 return *(long*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -82,6 +90,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_UINT64);
                 return *(ulong*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -91,6 +100,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_FLOAT);
                 return *(float*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
@@ -100,27 +110,29 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             unsafe
             {
                 EnsureScalar(tensor);
+                EnsureDType(tensor, TF_DataType.TF_DOUBLE);
                 return *(double*) tensor.buffer;
             }
         }
 
+        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
+        private static void EnsureDType(Tensor tensor, TF_DataType @is)
+        {
+            if (tensor._dtype != @is)
+                throw new InvalidCastException($"Unable to cast scalar tensor {tensor._dtype} to {@is}");
+        }
+
         [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
         private static void EnsureScalar(Tensor tensor)
         {
             if (tensor == null)
-            {
                 throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(tensor));
-            }
 
             if (tensor.TensorShape.ndim != 0)
-            {
                 throw new ArgumentException("Tensor must have 0 dimensions in order to convert to scalar");
-            }
 
             if (tensor.TensorShape.size != 1)
-            {
                 throw new ArgumentException("Tensor must have size 1 in order to convert to scalar");
-            }
         }
 
     }