Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging [CMMI] is a new journal providing an international forum for the expeditious publication of original scientific papers, reviews, highlights, surveys, and letters to the editors in the booming areas of contrast media and molecular imaging. The Journal is aimed at the academic, medical, and industrial communities, at the developers and users of these emerging and rapidly developing technologies, mainly in the areas of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, but also embracing all other in vivo imaging technologies such as x-Ray, PET/CT, etc.