UK Biobank aims to scan 100,000 participants and its brain protocol acquires susceptibility-weighted MRI (swMRI). To date, only the swMRI magnitude data were processed to produce T2* maps. The aim of this work is to develop a robust processing pipeline for QSM using the acquired swMRI phase data. We ran this pipeline on 2408 volunteers and report some preliminary results, including age-dependent curves and genetic associations. Significant correlations were found between susceptibility and age in subcortical structures. QSM discovered replicable genetic associations previously identified in T2*. Our results suggest that there is unique information in susceptibility maps compared to T2*.
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