OBJECTIVES Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) and corticosteroid injection (CSI) are treatment options for plantar fasciitis. Their clinical outcome comparison remains a debate. Also, the thickness changes of the plantar fascia on objective evaluation under the medium energy ESWT and CSI therapy are elusive. METHODS A total of 97 patients with chronic plantar fasciitis were enrolled in t...

In this paper, we consider the problem of embedded image transmission with feedback of channel state information (CSI) and retransmission request. Adaptive modulation is employed to improve the spectral efficiency. Constrained retransmission is employed to provide reliable packet transmission with limited delay. Performance analysis and numerical results over Nakagami blockfading channels are p...

background cerebral state index (csi) is derived from electroencephalogram (eeg) and is used for monitoring the level of consciousness during anesthesia. this study was designed to investigate the accuracy of glasgow coma scale (gcs) and csi as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with trauma brain injury (tbi). objective to compare the predictive value of gcs and csi for predicting...

Recent studies corroborate Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) usability to monitor patients remotely and obtain health information non-invasively with low-cost. In addition monitoring vital signs, this technology can also be applied presence detection, subject recognition, position movement identification, among other uses. Despite its wide range of potential applications, there is a lack CS...

Channel side information (CSI) information varies very fast in the millimeter wave radio frequencies so its coherent time is much smaller than that of the CSI in low-frequencies (about 6 GHz or below) under the same mobility conditions. Further, when the feedback channels, regardless of being wireless or wireline, have a backhaul / transmission delay which is practically so much higher than the...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Proton MR spectroscopy has recently been applied to the evaluation of seizures, but few comparisons have been made between different clinical spectroscopic techniques. Our goal was to determine whether there is a significant difference between hippocampal NAA/(Cho+Cr) ratios obtained by single-voxel spectroscopy (SVS) and by chemical-shift imaging (CSI). METHODS Twelve ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to establish the level of correlation between the suicide item contained within the Core Symptom Index (CSI), and the presence of suicidal thoughts as assessed by the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) and the Cornell Scale of Depression in Dementia (CSDD). PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy elderly residents in a long term care facility were incl...

We have studied the response of Tl-doped and Na-doped CsI crystals to nuclear recoils and γ’s below 10 keV. The response of CsI crystals to nuclear recoil was studied with mono-energetic neutrons produced by the H(p,n)He reaction. This was compared to the response to Compton electrons scattered by 662 keV γ-ray. Pulse shape discrimination between the response to these γ’s and nuclear recoils wa...