We followed the guidelines from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Nichols et al., 2017 (
link)) to report the acquisition and preprocessing steps. Structural images were obtained from Country-1 participants through whole-brain T1-weighted spin echo sequences in a 1.5T Phillips
Intera scanner, and were acquired parallel to the plane connecting the anterior and posterior commissures with the following parameters: matrix size = 256 × 240, 120 slices, approx. 1×1×1 mm (1×0.97 × 0.97 mm); repetition time (TR) = 7489 ms; echo time (TE) = 3420 ms; flip angle = 8°, acquisition time = 7 min. Country-2 participants were scanned in a 3T Philips
Achieva scanner. Whole-brain structural T1-rapid gradient-echo (MP RAGE) anatomical 3D scans were acquired with the following parameters: matrix size = 256×256, 160 slices, 1×1×1 mm isotropic; TR = 8521 ms; TE = 4130 ms; flip angle = 9° ms, acquisition time = 8 min. In Country-3, whole-brain structural T1-weighted spin echo sequences were acquired through a 3T Philips
MRI scanner with a standard head coil (matrix size = 256×200, 256 slices, 1×1×1 mm isotropic; TR = 5903 ms: TE = 2660 ms; flip angle = 8°; acquisition time = 7.42 min).
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