Converting 3d image stack to a 1* 1 cell array

I need to create a 1*1 cell array which has a 3 dimensional (1024*1024*80) array of gray scale values obtained from my image stack.

This is the code I have so far and I am not sure why I cant capture the 3rd dimension but when I run it I can capture 1024*1024 but not the 80 in the z dimension. How can I fix that?

if true
  % 
clear all
clc
folder = 'E:\Users\bvendra\Desktop\4.13umgs3-14c2before20,30, almost40\20\tif';
D = 'E:\Users\bvendra\Desktop\4.13umgs3-14c2before20,30, almost40\20\tif';
dCell = dir([D,'.tif']);
% NOTE: CHANGE FILETYPE AS APPROPRIATE FOR EACH SEQUENCE (.png, *.bmp, or *.jpg)
N = 80
numRows = ceil(sqrt(N));
IMAGES = cell(1,N);
FNAMEFMT = '%d.tif';
% Load images
for i=1:N
a = imread(sprintf(FNAMEFMT, i));
end
a={a};
save vol01
end

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

You keep overwriting the "a" variable over and over again. To put it into slices, do this

for k = 1 : N
  a2d = imread(sprintf(FNAMEFMT, k));
  if k == 1
    a3d = a2d;
  else
    a3d = cat(3, a3d, a2d);
  end
end
cellArray = {a3d};

By the way, sticking the 3d array into a cell is dumb.

[bhavya vendra]

Thank you!! you are a lifesaver! I was trying to put it in a cell because a different code I am trying to use for my research requires it that way :/