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k-Wave Toolbox for Matlab

The k-Wave toolbox has been designed to make tissue realistic simulations 
of ultrasound and photoacoustics fast and easy to use. It consists of a 
set of functions for solving the acoustic forward and inverse problems in 
ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging. 

The k-Wave Toolbox is provided as a free tool under the GNU Lesser General
Public License (LGPLv3); see enclosed license or 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for details.

The Toolbox may be downloaded from http://www.k-wave.org.
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Version B.0.2 (second beta release), January 2010
Written by Bradley Treeby and Ben Cox

Tested on Matlab R2009a on Microsoft Windows XP 32 and 64 bit, 64 bit
Linux Fedora 11.

Please send reports of bugs and suggestions to mail@k-wave.org.
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

WINDOWS: 

  1. Save and unpack the k-Wave zip file to a suitable folder, eg. 

    C:\Program Files\MATLAB\<version>\toolbox\k-Wave

  2. Add this folder, to the Matlab path, using the dropdown menus: 
  File, Set Path, Add Folder. Alternatively add the line:

    addpath('<pathname>\k-Wave')

  eg. addpath('C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2009b\toolbox\k-Wave'), 

  to the startup.m file. If no startup.m file exists, create one and save 
  it in the Matlab startup directory or any directory in the Matlab path. 

  3. Restart Matlab, or run the command

    >> startup

  in order to add the path to the current Matlab session.

  4. Finally, open the help browser and go to k-Wave Toolbox to get started.


LINUX: 

  1. Save and unpack the k-Wave zip file to a suitable folder, eg. 
  ~/Matlab/k-Wave

  2. Add the line 

    addpath('<pathname>/k-Wave')

  eg. addpath('~/Matlab/k-Wave'), 

  to the startup.m file. If no startup.m file exists, create one and save 
  it in the Matlab startup directory or any directory in the Matlab path. 

  3. Restart Matlab, or run the command

    >> startup

  in order to add the path to the current Matlab session.

  4. Finally, open the help browser and go to k-Wave Toolbox to get started.
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