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Published in final edited form as: Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2018 Jul 30;59(6):786–795. doi: 10.1111/vru.12671

Table 4.

Respondent Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Terms and Concepts Grouped According to American Association of Physicists in Medicine Definition.^c

AAPM Defining Terms of SRT²²		Corresponding Terms or Concepts from Table 3 used by Respondents	Number of Respondents (% of 64 Total Respondents)
A	High target dose	High target dose and/or hypofractionation	49 (77%)
B	Accurate radiation delivery	Image-guidance and/or accuracy and/or target localization and/or precision delivery	45 (70%)
C	Conformity	Conformal and/or steep dose gradient	38 (59%)
D	Dose heterogeneity	Dose heterogeneity	3 (3%)
A + B + C			22 (34%)
A + B + C +D			2 (2%)

SRT, stereotactic radiation therapy; AAPM, American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

The number of respondents using each of the AAMP’s four criteria for defining SRT was analyzed.