This book gives the practical introduction for medical physics students and clinical physicists to learn MATLAB programming. The first part of the book explains the MATLAB software layout and ways to get help followed by the demonstration of the fundamentals of MATLAB programming through over 100 examples. The second part of the book features eighteen real-life clinical scenarios and projects and twenty-three scenario expansions. The scenarios cover many of the common clinical medical physics areas including DICOM file manipulation, film dosimetry, brachytherapy application, linear accelerator and CT quality assurance and their automations, medical image processing and analysis. All scenarios include the step-by-step solution as a guidance for readers to learn MATLAB by practicing. The data files (e.g. DICOM) used for all clinical scenarios are provided
Author(s): Jidi Sun
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 287
City: Singapore
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction of MATLAB
1.1 MATLAB Window Layout
1.2 Where to Get Help
1.2.1 In-software Help
1.2.2 Online Community Support
1.3 MATLAB Basic
1.3.1 Data Types and Manipulations
1.3.2 File and Directory
1.3.3 Graph Plotting
1.3.4 Image Display
1.3.5 Basic Image Processing
1.3.6 Basic Data Analysis
1.3.7 Control Flows
1.3.8 User-Defined Function
1.4 DICOM-RT File Reading and Manipulation
1.4.1 Types of DICOM-RT File
1.4.2 Read DICOM Attributes
1.4.3 Extract DICOM Image
1.4.4 Write DICOM File
1.4.5 Search DICOM Attribute
Reference
2 Data Reading, Manipulation and Displaying
2.1 Varian RPM VXP File
2.1.1 Clinical Background
2.1.2 Clinical Scenario
2.1.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
2.1.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
3 DICOM File Functions in MATLAB
3.1 Compare Specific DICOM Attribute Among Different DICOM Files
3.1.1 Clinical Background
3.1.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
3.1.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
3.1.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
3.2 Differentiate DICOM Files in a Folder Based on Specific DICOM Header Information
3.2.1 Clinical Background
3.2.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
3.2.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
3.2.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
3.2.5 Clinical Scenario Expansion C
3.3 Anonymise DICOM File
3.3.1 Clinical Background
3.3.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
3.4 Modify DICOM-RT QA Plan File
3.4.1 Clinical Background
3.4.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
3.4.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
3.5 Invert Pixel Values on All DICOM Images in a Folder
3.5.1 Initial Clinical Scenario
3.6 Check Whether the Planned MU Has Been Completely Delivered on an EPID Image
3.6.1 Clinical Background
3.6.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
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4 Image Display, Processing and Analysis
4.1 Dosimetry: Scanner Reproducibility
4.1.1 Clinical Background
4.1.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.1.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.1.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
4.2 Dosimetry: Film Calibration
4.2.1 Clinical Background
4.2.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.2.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.2.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
4.2.5 Clinical Scenario Expansion C
4.3 Brachytherapy: HDR Source Position QA Using Film
4.3.1 Clinical Background
4.3.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.4 OBI: KV Imager Centre versus Gantry Angle
4.4.1 Clinical Background
4.4.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.4.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.5 OBI: Leeds Phantom High-Contrast Spatial Resolution Test
4.5.1 Clinical Background
4.5.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.5.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
4.6 EPID: EPID Centre and Scaling QA Using Graticule
4.6.1 Clinical Background
4.6.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.6.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.7 MLC: EPID Picket Fence QA
4.7.1 Clinical Background
4.7.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.8 CT: MAR (Metal Artefact Reduction) Image Analysis
4.8.1 Clinical Background
4.8.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.8.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.8.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
4.8.5 Clinical Scenario Expansion C
4.9 CT: Catphan QA HU Reproducibility Test
4.9.1 Clinical Background
4.9.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.9.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.10 CT: Automatically Find Catphan QA Sections
4.10.1 Clinical Background
4.10.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.11 X-ray QA Using Step Wedge
4.11.1 Clinical Background
4.11.2 Initial Clinical Scenario
4.11.3 Clinical Scenario Expansion A
4.11.4 Clinical Scenario Expansion B
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