Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the researchers of the Rorden lab at the University of South Carolina, especially Drs. Chris Rorden and Sebastiano Ferraris, in regards to their pioneer works that inspired this project and their support on sharing their expertise on this topic. We would also like to thank Dr. Mikael Naveau at Cyceron and Gabriel A. Devenyi at Douglas Mental Health University Institute who shared the dataset for the benchmarking converter. Lastly, We thank the Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the testing and providing helpful feedback. We especially thanks to Mrs. Tzu-Wen Wang for testing the data management tools and Ms. Alicia M. Stevans for revising the manuscript. This work was supported by NIH (Grant No: RF1MH117053, R01MH111429, and R01NS091236).

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