Table 1.

‘type A’ composite pulses used for performance study. Flip angle of all the individual pulses are π except for G1, G2 and G5, which are constant amplitude pulses of length 11π, 9.2π and 5π respectively.

Label	Phases	Reference
W1	{260°, 103.5°, 187°, 119.5°, 292°, 0°, 68°, 240.5°, 173°, 256.5°, 100°}	[2]
W2	{268.5°, 62°, 6.5°, 131°, 0°, 229°, 353.5°, 298°, 91.5°}	[2]
J1	{282.1°, 339.5°, 339.4°, 159.4°, 114.6°, 159.4°, 339.4°, 339.5°, 282.1°}	[1]
J2	{252.5°,265.0°, 97.5°, 170.0°, 97.5°, 265.0°, 252.5°}	[1]
G1	300 point shape file (Varian shape file available with supplementary files)	This article
G2	144 point shape file (Varian shape file available with supplementary files)	This article
G3	{ 114.4°, 162.2°, 200.5°, 174.3°, 48.1°, 174.3°, 200.5°, 162.2°, 114.4°}	This article (Figure 4a)
G4	{ 104.5°, 152°, 206.1°, 182.8°, 47.8°, 182.8°, 206.1°, 152°, 104.5°}	This article (Figure 4b)
G5	199 point shape file (Figure 1b) (Varian shape file available with sup- plementary documents)	This article (Figure 3b)