Before revision:  To facilitate this development there is a need for new computational tools to cross-register multi-modal data sets containing MRI volumes as well as multiple histological series , and to register the combined data set to a common reference atlas.
After revision:  To facilitate this development there is a need for new computational tools to cross-register multi-modal data sets including MRIs and multiple histological series , and to register the combined data set to a common reference atlas.