TRACKING OF TUMOR MOTION IN LUNG CANCER USING PATIENT SPECIFIC FINITE ELEMENT MODELING AND 4D-MRI IMAGE DATA

Soo-Kng Teo, Yuxin Yang, Eric Van Reeth, Shuai He, Peijun Chua, Chueh Loo Poh

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