imshow index issues with display

I currently have a 423x27x501 3D grayscale image, which I want to view slice by slice. The image is stored in a variable called Cell.

I want imshow to show me the different slices of Cell along the 'xz' plane, so in this case each image would be a 423x501 image. If I want to view slices of the xy plane, I can simply write my code as follows

for i=1:27
    figure(i)
    imshow(Cell(:,:,i))
end

In each iteration of the above loop, Cell(:,:,i) is stored as a 453x27 uint8 variable, which is friendly to imshow.

However, if I do something similar for the xz plane,

for i=1:27
    figure(i)
    imshow(Cell(:,i,:))
end

Then instead I get an error complaining about the size of the image. In the second loop, Cell(:,i,:) is stored as a 453x1x501 uint8 variable, which confuses imshow because it thinks of this as a rank 3 tensor instead of a 2D matrix, even though it is essentially a plane.

So, is there a way to get my script to display the relevant planes via use of indexing? Or alternately is there a way to convert from a 453x1x501 variable to a 453x501 variable so that imshow can accept the input?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

"is there a way to convert from a 453x1x501 variable to a 453x501 variable"

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