BACKGROUND For many decades, the standard of care radiotherapy regimen for medulloblastoma has been photon (megavoltage x-rays) craniospinal irradiation (CSI). The late effects associated with CSI are well-documented in the literature and are in-part attributed to unwanted dose to healthy tissue. Recently, there is growing interest in using proton therapy for CSI in pediatric and adolescent pat...

BACKGROUND Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) is the standard radiation therapy treatment for medulloblastoma. Conventional CSI photon therapy (Photon-CSI) delivers significant dose to surrounding normal tissue (NT). Research into pediatric CSI with proton therapy (Proton-CSI) has increased, with the aim of exploiting the potential to reduce NT dose and associated post-treatment complications. This...

background cerebral state index (csi) is derived from electroencephalograms to monitor the level of consciousness during anesthesia. some evidence shows that this indicator has been used to detect cerebral ischemia and prognostic outcomes for traumatic brain injury (tbi). objectives the present study was designed to investigate the correlation between glasgow coma score (gcs) and csi for brain-...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a multimethod psychometric evaluation to refine the Children's Somatization Inventory (CSI) and to investigate its dimensionality. METHOD The CSI was administered to 876 pediatric patients with chronic abdominal pain at their initial visit to a pediatric gastroenterology clinic. Tools from three psychometric models identified items that most effectively measured the const...

One of the key features of high speed WLAN such as 802.11n is the use of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) antenna technology. The MIMO channel is described with fine granularity by Channel State Information (CSI) that can be utilized in many ways to improve network performance. Many complex parameters of a MIMO system require numerous samples to obtain CSI for all possible channel configur...

Chromosaponin I (CSI), a gamma-pyronyl-triterpenoid saponin isolated from pea and other leguminous plants, modulates several developmental processes of plant roots and activates the sugar taste receptor cells in blowflies. CSI is a unique saponin for its reducing power and biological activities in both plants and insects. In the present paper, we described the method of preparation for CSI-spec...

In order to avoid dropping the periodic CSI report frequently in case of collision between a periodic CSI report and HARQ-ACK feedback in LTE-Advanced system, this paper gives two coding schemes for multiplexing periodic CSI (Channel State Information) with HARQ-ACK (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request Acknowledgement) feedback on PUCCH (Physical Up Control Channel) format 3. The result of simulati...

OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to assess the psychometric properties (including internal consistency, construct validity, reproducibility, and factor structure) of the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI), adapted and validated for a Brazilian population (CSI-BP). Additionally, we evaluated the relationship between the CSI-BP and the serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and determine...

PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate the relationships between change in white matter (WM) anisotropy and (a) patient age at craniospinal irradiation (CSI), (b) CSI dose, and (c) time of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging since CSI and to determine the effect of these neurotoxicity risk factors on WM anisotropy in posttreatment medulloblastoma survivors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Informed consent was o...

BACKGROUND Cerebral state index (CSI) has recently been introduced as an intra-operative monitor of anaesthetic depth. We compared the performance of the CSI to the bispectral index (BIS) in measuring depth of anaesthesia during target-controlled infusion (TCI) of propofol. METHODS Twenty Chinese patients undergoing general anaesthesia were recruited. CSI and BIS, and predicted effect-site co...