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Chunk #11 — Methods — Image Acquisition

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Genetic and environmental contributions to the relationships between brain structure and average lifetime cigarette use.
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Images were acquired on Siemens 1.5 Tesla scanners (241 at UCSD; 233 at MGH). Sagittal T1-weighted MPRAGE sequences were employed with a TI=1000ms, TE=3.31ms, TR=2730ms, flip angle=7degrees, slice thickness=1.33mm, voxel size 1.3×1.0×1.3mm. Of the 493 scans available at the time of these analyses, quality control measures excluded 3 cases due to scanner artifact and 16 cases due to inadequate image processing results (e.g., poor contrast caused removal of non-brain to fail).