Table 1.

Summary of the pulse sequences assayed in this work, indicating their respective modes of 3D encoding and the axes notations employed in Figs. 1 and 2

	MULTI-SLICE 3D MRI			PHASE-ENCODED 3D MRI
Encoding direction	Fig 1a*	Fig 1b*	Fig 1c†	Fig 2a*	Fig 2b†
x-axis	Freq. enc (RO)	Freq. enc (RO)	Freq. enc (RO)	Freq. enc (RO)	Freq. enc (RO)
y-axis	SPEN	SPEN	Phase enc. (PE)	SPEN	Phase enc. (PE)
z-axis	Slice-select. (SS)	Slice-select. (SS)	Slice-select. (SS)	Phase enc. (PE)	Phase enc. (PE)

^*New sequences introduced in this report based on SPEN.

^†Standard sequences based on k-space encoding.