Christian Dial

Christian Dial, PhD, DABR

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Radiation Oncology

Board Certification

  • American Board of Radiology (Therapeutic Medical Physics)

Christian Dial, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Utah and a Medical Physicist at Huntsman Cancer Hospital. Dr. Dial received a BS in Physics from the University of Utah and completed his doctoral work at Virginia Commonwealth University where his thesis focused on the benefits of adaptive radiation therapy for lung cancer. Dr. Dial completed residency training at the University of Colorado Denver in therapeutic medical physics. Dr. Dial's clinical and research interests include adaptive radiotherapy, programming for automation and efficiency, and stereotactic radiosurgery.

Education History

Residency University of Colorado Denver
 Resident
Doctoral Training Virginia Commonwealth University
 PhD
Undergraduate University of Utah
 BS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Dial C, Nelson G, Sarkar V, Paxton A, Price R, Salter B (2024). Automation framework for online review of daily dose distributions using CT on Rails in proton therapy. Phys Med, 123, 103379.
  2. Zhao H, Sarkar V, St James S, Paxton A, Su F, Price R, Dial C, Poppe M, Gaffney D, Salter B (2024). Verfification of surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) alignment for proton breast and chest wall patients by comparison to CT-on-rails and kV-2D alignment . J Appl Clin Med Phys, 25(2), e14263.
  3. Zhao H, Sarkar V, St James S, Paxton A, Su FF, Price RG, Dial C, Poppe M, Gaffney D, Salter B (2024). Verification of surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) alignment for proton breast and chest wall patients by comparison to CT-on-rails and kV-2D alignment. J Appl Clin Med Phys, 25(2), e14263.
  4. Dial C, Sarkar V, Nelson G, Paxton A, Salter B (2022). Technical note: A method for generating lesion-specific nonuniform rotational margins for targets remote from isocenter. Med Phys, 49(12), 7438-7446.
  5. Sarkar V, Lloyd S, Paxton A, Dial C, Rassiah P, Szegedi MW, Hitchcock YJ, Salter BJ (2021). Evaluation of the dosimetric impact of changes in shoulder position on target coverage for spine SBRT to metastases in the lower cervical spine region. J Radiosurg SBRT, 7(4), 321-328.

Case Report

  1. Martin T, Nelson G, Gaffney D, Dial C, Szegedi M, Rassiah P (2025). Modified total skin electron treatment for a paraplegic patient. J Appl Clin Med Phys, 26(7), e70162.