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

Jidi Sun graduated from the University of Canterbury with Bachelor of Science in physics and Master in Science in medical physics, then PhD in medical physics from the University of Newcastle. Following the clinical research work at the Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, Jidi did the medical physics registrar training and became a qualified clinical physicist in Australia. Currently Jidi works as a clinical medical physicist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Jidi has used MATLAB in his research and clinical work for over 13 years. Jidi has initiated an open-source project to automate clinical physics image quality assurance tests using MATLAB code.

Chapter 1 Introduction of MATLAB.- Chapter 2 Data reading, manipulation and displaying.- Chapter 3 DICOM file functions in MATLAB.- Chapter 4 Image display, processing and analysis.- Chapter 5 Graphical user interface development.