BACKGROUND Liposomal-based gadolinium (Gd) nanoparticles have elicited significant interest for use as blood pool and molecular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. Previous generations of liposomal MR agents contained gadolinium-chelates either within the interior of liposomes (core-encapsulated gadolinium liposomes) or presented on the surface of liposomes (surface-conjugated gad...

We proposed a new secure oblivious transfer protocol from indistinguishability obfuscation in this paper. Our main technical tool is the candidate indistinguishability obfuscation introduced in [1] and a dual-mode cryptosystem proposed in [2]. Following their steps, we presents a new k-out-of-l oblivious transfer protocol, its realization from DDH is described in this paper, in which we combine...

This letter presents a miniaturized dual-mode compositeright/left-handed line resonator with wide harmonic suppression. The pure right-handed microstrip transmission line adopt 36◦ electrical length instead of 90◦, thus the size of the dual-mode filter can be reduced significantly meanwhile the spurious response suppression are improved effectively. A prototype filter is designed and implemente...

A new miniaturized dual-mode microstrip bandpass filter is presented. The filter structure has been fractally generated based on the 4th iteration Minkowski-like pre-fractal geometry, using the conventional dual-mode square ring resonator as the initiator in the fractal generation process. It has been found that the presented filter possesses a size reduction of about 88% as compared with the d...

A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-todigital converter (ADC) with an integrating resolution booster (IRB) is proposed and experimentally verified to provide the capability of dual-mode operation, that is, low-power and high-resolution modes. This dual-mode architecture corresponds to a kind of hybrid ADC architecture, combining a low-power SAR ADC and a high-resolution integrating...

A single, free-running, dual-wavelength mode-locked, erbium-doped fibre laser was exploited to measure the absolute frequency of continuous-wave terahertz (CW-THz) radiation in real time using dual THz combs of photo-carriers (dual PC-THz combs). Two independent mode-locked laser beams with different wavelengths and different repetition frequencies were generated from this laser and were used t...

Body Centric Wireless Communication (BCWC) has been topic of much research in recent years. In this manuscript, a novel low-cost microstrip patch antenna is designed for on-/off-body communication with a dual-band operation. The proposed structure exhibits a monopole-like radiation pattern at 2.45 GHz and a broadside radiation at 4.8 GHz, simultaneously. Lateral dimensions of 42 mm × 46 mm and ...

We report an investigation of laser frequency stabilization using a whispering gallery mode resonator that is temperature stabilized by a dual-mode technique. This dual-mode technique has yielded mode volume temperature instabilities at the nK level, suggesting that high frequency stability may also be reached. Here, we experimentally and theoretically investigate the dynamics of such a system ...

This paper presents a dual-band bandpass filter by introducing transmission zeroes in the passband of a broadband bandpass filter using square-loop dualmode resonators. The transmission zeroes are achieved by using a dual-mode resonator. The dual-mode resonator is attached to two transmission lines of the same length. These lines are coupled to similar transmission line that are attached to the...