Example flow images from the analysis of one set of simulated data. Top row shows the true flow contributions from the four arteries within the imaging region used to generate the data. Results are shown from data generated with six or eight encoding cycles for analysis using matrix inversion (MI), ‘Bayesian inversion’ (BI) and Bayesian inference of a 3 DOF transformation (BT3). The left-most column shows the combined contributions from all four arteries using the RGB colour space (artery 1 = magenta, 2 = purple, 3 = red, 4 = green), the right four columns show the individual artery contributions. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)