Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among females, early diagnostic methods with suitable treatments improve the 5-year survival rates significantly. Microwave breast imaging has been reported as the most potential to become the alternative or additional tool to the current gold standard X-ray mammography for detecting breast cancer. The microwave breast image quality is affected by the...

The effectiveness of microwave-assisted protein digestion in different well positions of a 96-well microplate was investigated where microwave-assisted protein digestion of bovine serum albumin was performed in 10 different wells of a 96-well microplate in a microwave oven. Similarly increased sequence coverages (~70%) were generally observed for the 10 microwaveassisted protein digestion sampl...

We here report on the implementation of a microwave lens for neutral polar molecules suitable to focus molecules in both low-field-seeking and high-field-seeking states. By using the TE{11m} modes of a 12 cm long cylindrically symmetric microwave resonator, Stark-decelerated ammonia molecules are transversally confined. We investigate the focusing properties of this microwave lens as a function...

A series of five known asymmetric organocatalytic reactions was re-evaluated at elevated temperatures applying both microwave dielectric heating and conventional thermal heating in order to probe the existence of specific or nonthermal microwave effects. All transformations were conducted in a dedicated reactor setup that allowed accurate internal reaction temperature measurements using fiber-o...

The significance of compressive thermal stresses generated during microwave heating on concrete surface delamination is investigated analytically in this paper. Microwave energy acts as an internal heating source that causes concrete to heat up. The amount of microwave energy dissipated in concrete depends on microwave frequency, microwave power and the electromagnetic properties of the concret...

a new series of thiazolidinedione derivatives were synthesized. the structures of these compounds were established by means of ir, 1h-nmr and elemental analysis. all of the compounds were screened for antidiabetic activity on albino rats. most of the compounds showed significant antidiabetic activity when compared with the standard drug glibenclamide.

background : widespread use of x-band frequency (a part of the super high frequency microwave) in the various workplaces would contribute to occupational exposure with potential of adverse health effects.  according to limited study on microwave shielding for the workplace, this study tried to prepare a new microwave shielding for this purpose. methods: we used ei-403 epoxy thermosetting resin ...

background: mobile phones, use electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range. on the other hand, there is only one report on radioprotective effects of flaxseed oil. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of irradiation of rats with microwaves and/or treatment with flaxseed oil on the induction of adaptive response to a subsequent lethal dose (ld) of gamma rays. materials and me...

this paper focused on a simple approach for synthesis of molybdenum oxide (moo3) nanoparticles and reports a facile route for synthesis of such nanoparticles, using microwave irradiation as a homogenous and powerful source of heating, using ethylene glycol as the solvent and heating medium. for more investigations, besides microwave heating, the obtained solutions were also treated by conventio...

This article is based on “Class-E High-Efficiency Power Amplifiers, from HF to Microwave,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 1998, Baltimore; and “ClassE Switching-Mode High-Efficiency Tuned RF Microwave Power Amplifier: Improved Design Equations,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 2000, Boston; both by Nat Sokal, © IEEE 1998, 2000.—Ed.