Welcome to the Seifert Laboratory for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Method Development and Applications.  The central theme of our research is to identify biologically relevant magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signals that are particularly challenging to detect, and develop imaging techniques and hardware that can quantify these signals, thus providing new and clinically valuable imaging biomarkers.  We are currently developing techniques for functional MRI of the human spinal cord, ex vivo anatomical and quantitative MRI of whole-brain specimens, and quantitative solid-state MRI of myelin.