diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 978a26f..6436d3a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 Package: ImageArray
 Type: Package
 Title: A framework for on-disk and in-memory image arrays
-Version: 1.1.0
-Date: 2026-01-20
+Version: 1.1.2
 Authors@R: 
 	person("Artür", "Manukyan", 
 		     role=c("aut", "cre", "fnd"),
@@ -13,7 +12,6 @@ Description: ImageArray provides a framework for on-disk and in-memory image
              Zarr and life sciences image file formats (OME Bio-Formats).
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 Encoding: UTF-8
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
 biocViews: Software, Visualization
 Depends: 
   R (>= 4.5.0),
@@ -42,3 +40,4 @@ Config/testthat/edition: 3
 VignetteBuilder: knitr
 URL: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/ImageArray
 BugReports: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/ImageArray/issues
+Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
deleted file mode 100644
index 64718e4..0000000
--- a/NEWS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-CHANGES IN VERSION ...
--------------------------
-
-NEW FEATURES
-
-    o new features 
-
-SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
-
-    o changes
-
-BUG FIXES
-
-    o bug fixes
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e485595
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# ImageArray 1.1.2
+
+## NEW FEATURES
+
+* Images with any combination of XYZCT dimensions are can now be read.
+  See OME webpage for more information:
+  https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/ome-model/6.2.2/ome-tiff/specification.html#dimensionorder
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/R/BFArray.R b/R/BFArray.R
index 0b740b5..3807201 100644
--- a/R/BFArray.R
+++ b/R/BFArray.R
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ BFArray <- function(image.file, series, resolution) {
   len_meta <- lengths(meta.data@.Data)
   meta.data@.Data <- meta.data@.Data[which(len_meta > 0)]
 
+  # full image axes from metadata (always lowercase)
+  if( "coreMetadata" %in% names(meta.data)) {
+    axes <-  meta.data$coreMetadata$dimensionOrder
+  } else if ("coreMetadata" %in% names(meta.data[[1]])) {
+    axes <- meta.data@.Data[[1]]$coreMetadata$dimensionOrder
+  }
+  axes <- tolower(unlist(strsplit(axes, "")))
+
   # get shape
   series_res_meta <- vapply(
     meta.data@.Data,
@@ -58,7 +66,7 @@ BFArray <- function(image.file, series, resolution) {
     )
   if (length(series_index) > 0) {
     shape <- vapply(
-      c("sizeX", "sizeY", "sizeC"),
+      sprintf("size%s", toupper(axes)),
       function(x) {
         md <- meta.data@.Data[[series_index]]
         if (!is.null(cm <- md$coreMetadata)) {
@@ -69,6 +77,10 @@ BFArray <- function(image.file, series, resolution) {
       integer(1),
       USE.NAMES = FALSE
     )
+    
+    names(shape) <- toupper(axes)
+    # remove dimensions with size 1 to mimic RBioFormats::read.image behavior
+    shape <- shape[shape > 1]
 
     seed <- BFArraySeed(
       filepath = image.file,
@@ -100,7 +112,7 @@ BFArraySeed <- function(filepath, series, resolution, shape, type) {
 ###
 
 #' @describeIn BFArray-methods dim function for BFArray objects
-setMethod("dim", "BFArraySeed", function(x) x@shape)
+setMethod("dim", "BFArraySeed", function(x) unname(x@shape))
 
 ### - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 ### type() getter
@@ -120,11 +132,6 @@ setMethod("type", "BFArraySeed", function(x) x@type)
     stop("Please install RBioFormats: BiocManager::install('RBioFormats')")
   }
 
-  # check for index length
-  if (length(index) > 3) {
-    stop("You cannot get BFArray slices more than 2 dimensions!")
-  }
-
   # create slices
   ind <- mapply(
     function(x, y) {
@@ -147,10 +154,7 @@ setMethod("type", "BFArraySeed", function(x) x@type)
     res <- array(dim = len_ind)
     type(res) <- x@type
   } else {
-    subset_list <- list(X = ind[[1]], Y = ind[[2]])
-    if (length(len_ind) == 3) {
-      subset_list <- c(subset_list, list(C = ind[[3]]))
-    }
+    subset_list <- setNames(ind , names(x@shape))
     res <- RBioFormats::read.image(
       file = x@filepath,
       series = x@series,
@@ -158,9 +162,7 @@ setMethod("type", "BFArraySeed", function(x) x@type)
       subset = subset_list
     )
     res <- EBImage::imageData(res)
-    if (length(dim(res)) != 3) {
-      res <- array(res, dim = c(dim(res), 1))
-    }
+    dim(res) <- len_ind
   }
 
   res
diff --git a/R/ImageArray.R b/R/ImageArray.R
index ae3cb01..ef89f3f 100644
--- a/R/ImageArray.R
+++ b/R/ImageArray.R
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ createBFArray <- function(
   image_list <- lapply(resolution, function(res) {
     BFArray(image, series = series, resolution = res)
   })
-  ImageArray(meta = list(axes = c("x", "y", "c")), levels = image_list)
+  ImageArray(meta = list(axes = tolower(names(image_list[[1]]@seed@shape))), levels = image_list)
 }
 
 #' createMagickArray
@@ -279,10 +279,13 @@ createMagickArray <- function(
     stop("'n.levels' has to be 1 or a larger integer value!")
   }
 
-  # create image levels
+  # get axes, EBImage accepts XY or XYC
+  axes <- c("c", "x", "y")
   if (verbose) {
     .img_create_msg(dim(image), 1)
   }
+  
+  # create image levels
   image_data <- magick::image_data(image, channels = "rgb")
   storage.mode(image_data) <- "integer"
   image_list <- list(DelayedArray::DelayedArray(as.array(image_data)))
@@ -306,7 +309,7 @@ createMagickArray <- function(
   }
 
   # return
-  ImageArray(meta = list(axes = c("c", "x", "y")), levels = image_list)
+  ImageArray(meta = list(axes = axes), levels = image_list)
 }
 
 #' createMagickArray
@@ -354,7 +357,7 @@ createEBImageArray <- function(
   # check dim
   .check_dim(image)
 
-  # create image levels
+  # get axes, EBImage accepts XY or XYC
   meta <- list(axes = c("x", "y", "c"))
   if (verbose) {
     .img_create_msg(dim_image, 1)
@@ -363,6 +366,8 @@ createEBImageArray <- function(
   meta[["axes"]] <- meta[["axes"]][img_perm]
   img_perm <- stats::setNames(img_perm, meta[["axes"]])
   img <- aperm(image, img_perm)
+  
+  # create image levels
   image_list <- list(DelayedArray::DelayedArray(img))
   if (n.levels > 1) {
     cur_image <- image
diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index aae545d..36defc0 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -224,4 +224,4 @@ is.sequential <- function(x) {
 
 #' @keywords internal
 #' @noRd
-.AXES <- c("c", "y", "x")
+.AXES <- c("c", "y", "x", "z", "t")
diff --git a/inst/extdata/4D-series.ome.tiff b/inst/extdata/4D-series.ome.tiff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..de94451
Binary files /dev/null and b/inst/extdata/4D-series.ome.tiff differ
diff --git a/man/ImageArray-methods.Rd b/man/ImageArray-methods.Rd
index c8dc121..8fa2fae 100644
--- a/man/ImageArray-methods.Rd
+++ b/man/ImageArray-methods.Rd
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 % Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
-% Please edit documentation in R/ImageArray.R, R/conversion.R, R/manipulation.R,
-%   R/utils.R
+% Please edit documentation in R/ImageArray.R, R/conversion.R,
+%   R/manipulation.R, R/utils.R
 \name{ImageArray-methods}
 \alias{ImageArray-methods}
 \alias{[[,ImageArray,numeric-method}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-array.R b/tests/testthat/test-array.R
index 88c29e2..c268680 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-array.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-array.R
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ test_that("check indexing (BFArray)", {
   imgarray <- createImageArray(img.file, series = 1, resolution = 1:2)
   
   # crop
-  imgarray_vis <- crop(imgarray, ind = list(100:200, 100:200, 1))
+  imgarray_vis <- crop(imgarray, ind = list(100:200, 100:200))
   imgarray_vis <- as.raster(imgarray_vis)
   plot(imgarray_vis)
   
@@ -55,15 +55,15 @@ test_that("check indexing (BFArray)", {
   )
   
   # [ method works
-  imgarray_vis <- imgarray[100:200,,]
-  expect_equal(dim(imgarray_vis), c(101, dim(imgarray)[2], 1))
-  imgarray_vis <- imgarray[,100:200,]
-  expect_equal(dim(imgarray_vis), c(dim(imgarray)[1], 101, 1))
-  imgarray_vis <- imgarray[,,]
+  imgarray_vis <- imgarray[100:200,]
+  expect_equal(dim(imgarray_vis), c(101, dim(imgarray)[2]))
+  imgarray_vis <- imgarray[,100:200]
+  expect_equal(dim(imgarray_vis), c(dim(imgarray)[1], 101))
+  imgarray_vis <- imgarray[,]
   expect_equal(dim(imgarray_vis), dim(imgarray))
   
   # [ indexing error
-  expect_error(imgarray[100:200,])
+  expect_error(imgarray[,100:200,])
   expect_error(imgarray[100:200,,2])
   expect_error(imgarray[-100:200,,])
   expect_error(imgarray[,-100,])
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-bfarray.R b/tests/testthat/test-bfarray.R
index e7c2595..b5d8cca 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-bfarray.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-bfarray.R
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ test_that("bfarray object", {
   
   # create array
   bfa <- BFArray(img.file, series = 1, resolution = 2)
-  expect_equal(dim(bfa), c(256, 256, 1))
+  expect_equal(dim(bfa), c(256, 256))
   bfa <- BFArray(img.file, series = 1, resolution = 1)
-  expect_equal(dim(bfa), c(512, 512, 1))
+  expect_equal(dim(bfa), c(512, 512))
 
   # methods
-  bfa2 <- aperm(bfa, c(2, 1, 3))
-  expect_equal(bfa2[1, 2, 1], bfa[2, 1, 1])
+  bfa2 <- aperm(bfa, c(2, 1))
+  expect_equal(bfa2[1, 2], bfa[2, 1])
 
   # construct imagearray
   img <- createImageArray(img.file, series = 1, resolution = 1:2)
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ test_that("bfarray object", {
 
   # single channel modulate
   img_modulated <- modulate(img, brightness = 200)
-  orig <- realize(img[1:10, 1:10,]) * 2
+  orig <- realize(img[1:10, 1:10]) * 2
   orig[orig > 1] <- 1
-  newmat <- realize(img_modulated[1:10, 1:10,])
+  newmat <- realize(img_modulated[1:10, 1:10])
   expect_equal(orig, newmat)
 })
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-imagearray-class.R b/tests/testthat/test-imagearray-class.R
index 6e9c7c8..0217289 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-imagearray-class.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-imagearray-class.R
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ test_that("image array class", {
   
   # incorrect axes names
   expect_error(
-    imgarray <- ImageArray(meta = list(axes = c("c", "z", "x")), 
+    imgarray <- ImageArray(meta = list(axes = c("b", "a", "d")), 
                            levels = list(array(1:75, dim = c(3,5,5))))
   )
   
diff --git a/vignettes/ImageArray.Rmd b/vignettes/ImageArray.Rmd
index 210101f..d229a37 100644
--- a/vignettes/ImageArray.Rmd
+++ b/vignettes/ImageArray.Rmd
@@ -223,6 +223,22 @@ plot(bfa.raster)
 dim(bfa.raster)
 ```
 
+`r Biocpkg("ImageArray")` can also read images with all five dimensions (XYZCT)
+available in the OME (Open Microscopy Environment) specifications. 
+See OME specifications webpage for more information [here](https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/ome-model/6.2.2/ome-tiff/specification.html#dimensionorder).
+
+```{r 4d, out.width="50%"}
+ome.tiff.file <- system.file("extdata", "4D-series.ome.tiff",
+                             package = "ImageArray")
+
+# read metadata
+read.metadata(ome.tiff.file, proprietary.metadata = TRUE, filter.metadata = TRUE)
+
+# define ImageArray object
+imgarray <- createImageArray(ome.tiff.file, series = 1, resolution = 1)
+imgarray
+```
+
 # Use cases
 
 The delayed pyramid scheme introduced by `ImageArray` objects can also