how to create 3D patch in a 3D image?

I am having a 179x214x148 input 3D image.Now i want to create 3x3x3 patches from input image.Anyone who knows plz help me!!

Answer 1

[KSSV]

Check with blocproc

http://in.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/blockproc.html

[Sandhiya Prakash]

Is that blockproc works for 3D image? My image is in .mha format