MCCL Getting Started on Mac
- Download latest version for your operating system from Releases
- Once the zip file has been downloaded, extract or unzip contents
- The downloaded files include:
- mc - the MCCL executable
- infile_* - several sample input files
- *.m, jsonlab folder - MATLAB scripts to enable viewing the results using MATLAB
The sample input files are named infile_*, where * indicates the source, tissue and detector definitions designated within the file. Note that the default source definition is a point source perpendicular to the tissue surface and when the infile has this source definition, it is not part of the name. For example, the infile "infile_one_layer_all_detectors.txt" designates a point source, one layer tissue and all detectors currently available.
To run on OSX:
- Requirements: dotnet runtime 2.1 - instructions here
- Unzip or copy downloaded folder into a desired location
- Change directory "cd foldername"
- The file permissions get reset when zip is made, so to set them for all files type "chmod 644 *"
- Make the MCCL an executable file "chmod 755 mc"
- To run sample infile "./mc infile=infile_one_layer_all_detectors.txt"
- Output to the screen will be similar to that shown in figure above will be displayed
- Output will be in folder named by infile "OutputName"
- To view plots of results using Matlab, see next section
For linux, Mac and Windows:
- Requirements: MATLAB R2011b and higher
- After running a sample infile, a folder will be created in the current directory. For the infile described above, "infile_one_layer_all_detectors.txt", the folder will be named "one_layer_all_detectors"
- Bring up MATLAB and edit the script file load_results_script.m. Set "datanames = { ' one_layer_all_detectors' };" (see figure below) and save changes
- Execute this script by typing "load_results_script" at the MATLAB prompt
- Plots of the all detector results specified in the infile will come to the screen
