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Background: The use of modulated techniques for intra-cranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) results in highly modulated fields with small apertures, which may be susceptible to uncertainties in the delivery device. Purpose: This study aimed to quantify the impact of simulated delivery errors on treatment plan dosimetry and how this is affected by treatment planning system (TPS), plan geometry, delivery technique, and plan complexity. A beam modelling error was also included as context to the dose uncertainties due to treatment delivery errors. Methods: Delivery errors were assessed for multiple-target brain SRS plans obtained through the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) international treatment planning challenge (2018). The challenge dataset consisted of five intra-cranial targets, each with a prescription of 20 Gy. Of the final dataset of 54 plans, 51 were created using the volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) technique and three used intensity modulated arc therapy ( ....