matRad technical documentation

features a very modular and sequential design which is reflected in the matRad script. After importing your own data or loading one of the provided cases you can start working with matRad dose calculation and optimization modules. The four main parts of the matRad workflow are

Information about the individual modules is given in the following subsections:

Set treatment plan parameters

Dose influence matrix calculation

Fluence optimization

Visualization

How to cite matRad

matRad publications

's most important Matlab variables

pln-struct Treatment plan information

ct-struct CT-data

cst-cell array Structure sets, inverse planning objectives, and other meta-information

stf-struct Steering information

dij-struct Dose influence data

resultGUI-struct Resulting dose distribution, RBE cube etc..

Additional information

How to run matRad with Octave

matRad coordinate system

The CORT dataset

DICOM import

Minimum system requirements