What is the TOAST Matlab toolbox?

The TOAST toolbox is a Matlab interface to the functions in the TOAST libraries. It consists of

MEX files which provide Matlab functions that link directly to TOAST library functions.
M files that provide additional high-level functionality making use of Matlab numerics and visualisation routines.
Application scripts which contain complete examples of forward and inverse solvers for optical tomography reconstruction problems.
Help files, examples and demos.

Matlab provides a development environment that allows rapid prototyping and is better suited for development, debugging and visualisation than the native TOAST C++ code.

It should be noted however that the toolbox can be slower and less memory-efficient than an equivalent C++ solution.