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Zohaib Iqbal, Ph.D.

Zohaib Iqbal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

School
Medical School
Department
Radiation Oncology
  • Biography

    Zohaib Iqbal, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is faculty in the Department’s Division of Medical Physics & Engineering and the lead physicist for the Vision RT surface-guided radiation therapy system.

    Dr. Iqbal received his bachelor’s degree in physics from The College of New Jersey as well as his Ph.D. in biomedical physics from the University of California, Los Angeles. He followed this by completing his radiation oncology medical physics residency training at UT Southwestern. Following graduation, he joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Radiation Oncology as an Assistant Professor. In 2022, he returned to UT Southwestern’s Department of Radiation Oncology as faculty.

    Dr. Iqbal has been a reviewer for numerous publications, including the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics and the Cureus Journal of Medical Science. He is also an active reviewer of the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. He is an active member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).

  • Research Interest
    • Adaptive radiation therapy
    • Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine
    • MR spectroscopy
  • Publications
    Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Cervical Cancer: Review and Potential Prognostic Applications
    Iqbal Z, Albuquerque K, Chan KL Cancers 2024 Jun 16
    Acute Toxicity of Total Body Irradiation Using Volumetric Arc Therapy With a Focus on the Effect of Lung Dose Rate
    Melton MK, Stanley DN, Iqbal Z, Keene KS, Simiele E, McDonald A Advances in Radiation Oncology 2024 Apr 9
    Prospective Evaluation of Automated Contouring for CT-Based Brachytherapy for Gynecologic Malignancies
    Kraus AC, Iqbal Z, Cardan RA, Popple RA, Stanley DN, Shen S, Pogue JA, Wu X, Lee K, Marcrom S, Cardenas CE Advances in Radiation Oncology 2024 Apr 9
    The accuracy of artificial intelligence deformed nodal structures in cervical online cone-beam-based adaptive radiotherapy
    Wang E, Yen A, Hrycushko B, Wang S, Lin J, Zhong X, Dohopolski M, Nwachukwu C, Iqbal Z, Albuquerque K Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2024 Jan 29
    Stability and reproducibility comparisons between deep inspiration breath-hold techniques for left-sided breast cancer patients: A prospective study
    Parsons D, Joo M, Iqbal Z, Godley A, Kim N, Spangler AE, Albuquerque K, Sawant A, Zhao B, Gu X, Rahimi A Journal of applied clinical medical physics 2023 May 24
    Dictionary learning compressed sensing reconstruction: pilot validation of accelerated echo planar J-resolved spectroscopic imaging in prostate cancer
    Joy A, Nagarajan R, Saucedo A, Iqbal Z, Sarma MK, Wilson N, Felker E, Reiter RE, Raman SS, Thomas MA Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine 2022 Aug 35 667-682
    Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Enabled Total Body Irradiation (VMAT-TBI): Six-year Clinical Experience and Treatment Outcomes
    Zhang-Velten ER, Parsons D, Lee P, Chambers E, Abdulrahman R, Desai NB, Dan T, Wardak Z, Timmerman R, Vusirikala M, Patel PA, Simms-Waldrip T, Aquino V, Koh A, Tan J, Iqbal Z, Zhang Y, Reynolds Jr. RR, Chiu T, Joo M, Hrycushko B, Ouyang L, Lamphier R, Yan Y, Jiang SB, Kumar KA, Gu X Transplantation and Cellular Therapy 2022 Feb 28 113.e1-113.e8
    Deep learning can accelerate and quantify simulated localized correlated spectroscopy
    Iqbal Z, Nguyen D, Thomas MA, Jiang S Scientific reports 2021 Dec 11
    A feasibility study for predicting optimal radiation therapy dose distributions of prostate cancer patients from patient anatomy using deep learning
    Nguyen D, Long T, Jia X, Lu W, Gu X, Iqbal Z, Jiang S Scientific reports 2019 Dec 9
    Super-Resolution 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Utilizing Deep Learning
    Iqbal Z, Nguyen D, Hangel G, Motyka S, Bogner W, Jiang S Frontiers in Oncology 2019 Oct 9
  • Honors & Awards
    • Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
      (2017)
    • Magna Cum Laude Abstract Merit Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
      (2015)
    • Merit-Based Scholarship, The College of New Jersey
      (2012)
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (2018)
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2024)
    • American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (2021)
    • Clinical Application of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2021)