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Chunk #15 — Materials and Methods — Imaging Preprocessing and Registration

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Initial evidence that OPRM1 genotype moderates ventral and dorsal striatum functional connectivity during alcohol cues.
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FSL 4.1 (FMRIB's Software Library, www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl) was used for the imaging analyses. Motion correction was carried out using the Motion Correction Linear Image Registration Tool (McFLIRT, Version 5.0) with the estimated motion parameters entered as covariates in the general linear model. Non-brain tissue/skull removal was conducted with the Brain Extraction Tool (BET). The images were smoothed using a FWHM Gaussian kernel (5mm) and high-pass filtered (100s cutoff) in the temporal domain using a Gaussian weighted straight line using the FMRI Expert Analysis Tool (FEAT, Version 5.63). The EPI images were first registered to the MBW, then to the MPRAGE using affine linear transformations, and finally into standard (Montreal Neurological Institute, MNI avg152 template) space for between subject analyses refined by FSL’s FNIRT nonlinear registration (Andersson et al., 2007). Three subjects (two G-allele carriers and one A-allele homozygote) were excluded from further analyses due to excessive motion (exceeding 3mm of translation).