matRad additional Info

How to run matRad with Octave

matRad coordinate system

The CORT dataset

DICOM import

Minimum system requirements

Particle base data files

matRad programming style

White space

Always use white spaces before and after the "=" sign upon assigning new values to variables, e.g.

thisIsA = validAssignment;

Variable names

matRad variable names start with a lower case letter. Concatenated variable names indicate a new word by an upper case letter e.g.

newVariableName = 42;

Absolute paths

At some points there are issues with relative paths to matRad files which are annoying (e.g. within the unit testing). The problems occur when you run certain matRad functionality and are currently not in the matRad root directory. To avoid this, we should make sure, that

• all references to files should be absolute paths, which are created at runtime through locating the file that is executing the code (e.g. via mfilename('fullpath')). Alternatively which could be used.
• if something needs to be executed within a directory, also use the absolute path to cd into the directory. But before, use pwd to get the users directory and after the execution cd back into it.