Data were acquired at the Athinoula A. Martinos Imaging Center at MIT. Before the MRI, participants acclimated to the scanning environment and practiced staying still by undergoing a ‘mock scan’. Scanning was performed using a Siemens MAGNETOM Trio Tim 3 T MRI scanner with a 32-channel coil. A whole-brain, high-resolution, T1-weighted multi-echo structural scan (MPRAGE) was collected (ECS acquisition parameters: TR = 2530 ms, TE = 1.64 ms/3.5 ms/5.36 ms/7.22 ms, flip angle = 7°, voxel size = 1 mm isotropic, matrix size = 192 × 192, 176 sagittal slices, FOV = 192 mm; AS: TR = 2530 ms; TE = 1.64 ms/3.44 ms/5.24 ms/7.04 ms; flip angle = 7°; resolution = 1 mm isotropic). This sequence was optimized for participants with high motion (Tisdall et al., 2012 (link)). This sequence included the volumetric navigators (vNavs) prospective motion correction system, which tracked the subject's head motion and corrected the imaging coordinates to follow the subject's motion in real time (Tisdall et al., 2012 (link)). This method has been shown, when using a very similar scanning protocol, to significantly reduce motion-induced biases in cortical thickness measures (Tisdall et al., 2016 (link)).
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