Non-invasive detection of intracranial pressure related to the optic nerve
Review Article

Non-invasive detection of intracranial pressure related to the optic nerve

Jian Li1, Chao Wan2^

1Department of Radiology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China; 2Department of Ophthalmology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

^ORCID: 0000-0002-7414-0773.

Correspondence to: Chao Wan. Department of Ophthalmology, the First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155 Nanjing North Street, Heping District, Shenyang 110001, China. Email: wanchao@cmu1h.com.

Abstract: Intracranial pressure (ICP) is associated with a variety of diseases. Early diagnosis and the timely intervention of elevated ICP are effective means to clinically reduce the morbidity and mortality of some diseases. The detection and judgment of reduced ICP are beneficial to glaucoma doctor and neuro ophthalmologist to diagnose optic nerve disease earlier. It is important to evaluate and monitor ICP clinically. Although invasive ICP detection is the gold standard, it can have complications. Most non-invasive ICP tests are related to the optic nerve and surrounding tissues due to their anatomical characteristics. Ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial Doppler, papilledema on optical coherence tomography, visual evoked potential, ophthalmodynamometry, the assessment of spontaneous retinal venous pulsations, and eye-tracking have potential for application. Although none of these methods can completely replace invasive technology; however, its repeatable, low risk, high accuracy, gradually attracted people’s attention. This review summarizes the non-invasive ICP detection methods related to the optic nerve and the role of the diagnosis and prognosis of neurological disorders and glaucoma. We discuss the advantages and challenges and predict possible areas of development in the future.

Keywords: Intracranial pressure (ICP); optic nerve; ultrasound; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); transcranial Doppler (TCD)


Submitted Oct 23, 2020. Accepted for publication Jan 26, 2021.

doi: 10.21037/qims-20-1188


Introduction

Intracranial pressure (ICP) refers to the pressure generated by the contents of the cranial cavity [brain tissue, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)] on the wall of the cranial cavity. ICP is usually measured in millimeter of mercury and centimeter water column, and normal ICP in supine adults is 7–15, 5–15, or 0–15 mmHg in the literature. Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the pressure exerted by the eye’s contents on the wall and the interaction between the contents of the eyeball. IOP is usually measured in millimeter of mercury. The normal IOP range is from 10–21 mmHg. IOP and ICP are 2 sets of pressure systems that are interrelated and relatively independent. Through the circulation of the aqueous humor and CSF, ICP and IOP are relatively stable (1).

The optic nerve fiber belongs to a part of the central nervous system. It passes through the posterior scleral foramen, where the inner 1/3 of the sclera and the choroid from the lamina cribrosa (LC), and the outer 2/3 of the sclera evolves into the dura. The optic nerve is a part of the alba extending outward from the brain fiber and representing retinal ganglion cells (2,3). The posterior segment of the optic nerve is covered with 3 layers of meninges. The outer layer is the dura mater, the middle layer is the arachnoid mater, and the inner layer is the pia mater. There are 2 spaces between the 3 layers of the tunica vaginalis; the subdural space and the subarachnoid space (Figure 1). The front end of the 2 spaces ends at the back of the eyeball, forming a blind duct, and communicates directly with the brain space backward, full of CSF. The increase in ICP can be transmitted to the optic nerve sheath (ONS) space around the optic nerve through the CSF of the subarachnoid space so that the pressure of the latter also increases, resulting in the phenomenon of tortuosity and diameter increase (4). ONS dilation has been indicated to be an early indicator of ICP increase, so measuring the ONS diameter (ONSD) can detect whether there is an ICP increase and can be used to monitor changes in this increase (5).

Figure 1 Longitudinal section of a normal human optic nerve. A: dura mater; B: arachnoid mater; C: pia mater; D: central retinal artery and vein; E: subarachnoid space; F: subdural space; G: retina; H: choroid; I: sclera; J: lamina cribrosa.

Examinations of increased ICP are mainly used in cases of intracranial hemorrhage, trauma, brain injury, hydrocephalus, and idiopathic high ICP (6,7) and can be used as a prognostic indicator of ischemic encephalopathy after cardiac arrest (8). Reducing ICP has gradually become a focus of interest in recent years. The LC is the weak part of the eyeball’s posterior part, and the IOP and ICP are interrelated at the LC. The pressure gradient across the LC has attracted more and more attention in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. High IOP or low ICP is the pathological basis of optic nerve damage in glaucoma (9). Their detection and judgment are beneficial for glaucoma doctor and neuro-ophthalmologists for the early diagnosis of optic nerve diseases and the timely intervention of optic nerve injuries caused by them (10).

ICP measurement mainly depends on invasive methods, including a lumbar puncture (11), external ventricular drainage (12,13), and intraparenchymal-placed probes (14,15). These are the gold standards of ICP measurement. Invasive ICP measurement is accurate and reliable, but there are many risks, such as bleeding, infection, misplacement, and brain hernia (16-19). Therefore, the development of non-invasive ICP measurement technology for the measurement of ICP can avoid invasive probe placed in the spinal canal, reducing the risk of infection and bleeding. However, existing non-invasive ICP measurement technology cannot measure the ICP quantitatively (i.e., taking centimeter water column and other pressure units as the measurement value); it can only estimate the ICP with the correlation between the intracranial physiological markers, so there is no gold standard (20).

Over the years, non-invasive methods for measuring ICP have emerged, including fundoscopy examinations and optical coherence tomography (OCT) (21), flash visual evoked potential (VEP) (22), IOP and venous ophthalmodynamometry (23), tympanic membrane displacement (24), electroencephalogram (25), retinal blood pressure (26), blood flow velocity pulsatility index (27), and cerebral blood flow (28). Due to the large variation and difficulty in implementation, some of these methods are gradually reduced, however, there are several non-invasive methods to detect ICP, which are considered to be more useful. They are closely related to the optic nerve.

As an important link between ICP and IOP, optic nerve can reflect the balance between them. The optic nerve can be used as an important part of ICP measurement; however, the imbalance between ICP and IOP will also affect the optic nerve. In the present study, we review the non-invasive ICP detection related to the optic nerve; the principles, similarities, and differences of these methods; and the current research progress.


Ocular ultrasound

Ocular ultrasound is a non-invasive measurement of ICP. The method is to measure the ONSD 3 mm behind the eyeball when the optic nerve ultrasound shows clear and uniform low reflection band extending backward from the base, and the ONS parallel shows bilateral thin and weak echo lines (29). Each eye needs to measure multiple angles and then average them (30) (Figure 2). Amini et al. found that in patients with non-traumatic intracranial hypertension, ONSD was associated with increased ICP, which could be detected when ICP was increased by 5 mmHg, with high sensitivity and specificity, and increased ICP up to 15 mmHg could be detected all the time (32). Previous studies have suggested that ultrasonic detection of the ONSD to estimate ICP is limited to the increase of ICP, but it is not associated with reduced ICP (33). However, recent studies have shown that ultrasound can also detect a decrease in ICP (34). Also, it has been reported that the sensitivity of ultrasound measurement of the ONSD is >90%, and ultrasound can be carried out quickly at the bedside of patients at any time, feasible, simple, and easy to learn, and has obvious advantages in the examination of patients with brain injury (35-37).

Figure 2 Ocular ultrasound: 3 views [transverse (top), sagittal (middle), and inferior (bottom)]. Red-optic nerve diameter (internal diameter), yellow-ONSD (external diameter), green-3 mm distance behind globe. Note: photo is of is a research assistant within the research division of the Department of Anesthesiology who gave consent to use pictures of himself for the demonstration of various ultrasound examinations. Reprinted with permission from Raval et al. (31).

Although ONSD is widely used to monitor ICP, its application is still controversial. First, there are different opinions on the method of ultrasound examination. The values measured by ultrasound examination on different planes vary greatly, and the repeatability is poor. Moreover, different probes will also make the ONSD difference (38-40). Some studies have shown that when the eyeball is in the maximum abduction position and the ONSD is reduced by more than 5%, subarachnoid fluid increases (41). Second, the measurement of ONSD requires high-quality ultrasound images (31). When performing ultrasound examination on the same patient, it may appear that high-quality images may be obtained in one view, but not in another view. It is difficult to obtain high-quality images in all directions, and even some patients do not have high-quality images from all directions. If the low-quality image is used to calculate ONSD, we may get the wrong result for ICP, which may be due to the B-wave measurement’s shadow effect in ultrasound (42). Third, the ultrasound characteristics determine that the closer the measurement is to the eyeball, the more artifacts will appear, leading to inaccurate measurement results and significant differences. The final measurement may be the shadow caused by the optic nerve, not the ONS (43).

The measurement results will be biased due to poor interference angle, limited horizontal resolution, and ultrasonic blooming effect. Therefore, when the gain is not significant, the ONSD will appear larger, and when the gain increases, the ONSD decreases (44). At the same time, the measurement results of different ultrasound technicians will be different. In their study, Zoerle et al. found that, after treatment of elevated ICP, the decrease in ICP caused by CSF drainage was not reflected by the corresponding ONSD changes (45). Fourth, the parenchymal thickening of the pia mater and arachnoid sheath caused by optic neuritis, optic glioma, meningioma or leukemia optic nerve infiltration, and other diseases may lead to deviation of ultrasonographic results of ONSD (46,47). Finally, when using ultrasound, its safety needs to be considered. Studies have shown that when ultrasound is used frequently, especially with high-frequency and low-intensity ultrasonic beam absorption, the increase of attenuation will reduce energy, which will be converted into heat, resulting in the emergence of hydroxide and hydrogen-free radicals, which may cause irreversible structure change of the lens, vitreous body, and retina (48,49). To avoid any possible damage, the output of the ultrasonic system should be adjusted according to the ALARA principle (“as low as reasonably achievable”) (29).

Cennamo et al. report that the standardized A-scan can be used to measure the ONSD. When measuring, the A-scan probe was placed at the main position of the lateral canthus of the eye and tilted backward at the orbital level of the optic nerve until the characteristic optic nerve pattern was observed on the echo screen. All measurements were made at a distance of about 2–5 mm behind the globe. When the sound beam was perpendicular to the anterior third of the optic nerve’s surface, the highest bimodal peak corresponding to the arachnoid surface was obtained from each side of the nerve (50). It is difficult to achieve the technology of the A-scan optic nerve, and not every ultrasonic machine has this function (32).


Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

MRI is another non-invasive method of ICP measurement that has received significant attention. MRI of the ONSD is similar to that of ultrasound, and the image is relatively clearer. MRI can also exclude ICP elevation caused by other potential reasons when performing optic nerve examination (51). Usually, the neuroimaging manifestations of intracranial hypertension include empty sella, tight subarachnoid spaces, retrobulbar flattening, ONS dilation, cerebellar tonsil herniation, meningocele, transverse venous sinus stenosis, and vertical tortuosity of the optic nerve (52-56). T2-weighted MRI was used to analyze the orbital structure and ONS. Most of the optic nerve reports about ICP came from thin sections of the orbit or volumetric fat-saturated T2-weighted images. The diameter of the axial and coronal positions of the 3-mm retrobulbar were averaged (57,58) (Figure 3). Compared with B-ultrasound, MRI has higher spatial resolution and can distinguish the optic nerve from tunica vaginalis, so the calculation of ONSD is more representative. A study of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), 5 patients with headache, blurred vision, and bilateral optic disc edema was examined by MRI. The results showed that the diffusion of the optic nerve head in both eyes was limited. After a lumbar puncture, it was confirmed that the CSF opening pressure was >25 cmH2O (59). The reason for this could be the compression of the central retinal artery and vein when ICP increased and may be a manifestation of increased ICP. Alperin et al. used another method to measure ICP, elastic index, which uses MRI to calculate the ratio of pressure to volume change. The principle of this method is that the derivative of volume to pressure decreases with the increase of ICP, and the ratio of the derivative is used to predict ICP (60). MRI-ICP software based on this principle makes calculations easier, and Alperin et al. used this method to estimate craniospinal compliance and improve supine and standing pressures (61). The pressure volume index measured by MRI was proposed to obtain the skull and spinal cord’s compliance index. It was found that the contribution of the spinal canal in IIH was significantly less than that in the normal control group (60% vs. 78%) (62). Moreover, as opposed to other imaging methods, MRI-ICP can also estimate the decrease of ICP. At present, in glaucoma-related studies, MRI-ICP is considered to be the most suitable choice to estimate low or normal ICP (63). However, MRI also has its limitations. It is impractical to transfer a potentially unstable critical patient for a long period, and frequent radiography will result in high costs (64).

Figure 3 Methodology to measure optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD).

Two-depth transcranial Doppler (TD-TCD)

According to the anatomical characteristics of the ophthalmic artery accompanying the optic nerve at the optic canal, and based on the concept of non-invasive arterial blood pressure measurement, the principle of TD-TCD is to use the ophthalmic artery as an ICP sensor to simultaneously measure the blood flow velocity of the intracranial and extracranial segments of the ophthalmic artery to obtain the value of ICP (65) (Figure 4). At present, it is considered to be the only non-invasive method that can accurately measure the absolute value of ICP (66). This method does not need to be calibrated for specific patients, and a specific head frame with an ultrasonic transducer is used to place over the closed eyelid (67). Hamarat et al. used multidepth TCD to pre-locate the depth range of the internal carotid artery edge and simultaneously locate the depth of intracranial segments of the ophthalmic artery extracranial segments of the ophthalmic artery segments to carry out reliable non-invasive ICP measurement (68). TD-TCD or multidepth TCD has high accuracy and reliable measurements and it is suitable for patients without anatomical variation of vascular branches at the optic nerve (>96%) (69). A study of 62 neurology patients showed that the non-invasive TD-TCD device was accurate (standard deviation: 2.19 mmHg) and accurate (mean systematic error: 0.12 mmHg) compared with gold standard CSF pressure measured by lumbar puncture. The mean ICP measured by non-invasive TD-TCD equipment was 12.76 (3.23) mmHg (range, 4.04–23.71) and 13.18 (2.99) mmHg (range, 4.41–24.26) by lumbar puncture. To assess its effectiveness in glaucoma patients, Krakauskaite et al. conducted a pilot study and found that patients with glaucoma had a higher translaminar pressure gradient (TPG) than healthy controls (P<0.001) (66). Also, the decrease of the neuroretinal marginal area was found to be related to the increase of the TPG across the LC in normal tension glaucoma and glaucoma patients (70). However, this method depends on whether the optic nerve’s subarachnoid pathway from the intracranial to intraocular segments is smooth. If the optic canal or the optic canal foramen is blocked by suprasellar meningioma, annular adhesion after tuberculous meningitis, or aneurysm of the optic canal, the accurate ICP value cannot be measured (71). Because of putting pressure on the eyeball, this method is not suitable for patients with ocular trauma, and it also needs to pay attention to the risk of oculocardiac reflex (72). Oculocardiac reflex is the eyeball is mechanically stimulated when the eyeball is removed, compressed, or the eye muscle is stretched, which causes the vagus nerve to be overexcited, leading to arrhythmia, the slower pulse. The reflex arc of the oculocardiac reflex is from the ophthalmic branch of the trigeminal nerve to the pontine nucleus of the trigeminal nerve, and then to the dorsal nucleus of the vagus nerve, leading to the myocardial reaction.

Figure 4 Non-invasive TD-TCD device for absolute ICP measurements. Ultrasound transducer of the Doppler subsystem is surrounded by an externally applied pressure chamber with a controlled external pressure source and measurement. Reprinted with permission from Ragauskas et al. (65). ICP, intracranial pressure. TD-TCD, two-depth transcranial Doppler.

OCT

OCT is a sensitive and accurate method for detecting optic nerve head lesions. In a cohort study of 104 IIH patients, Vijay et al. found that the central thickness of the optic nerve head examined by OCT was closely related to ICP (right eye: r=0.60, P=0.02; left eye: r=0.73, P=0.002) (21). There was a longitudinal correlation between the central thickness of the optic nerve head and ICP (12 and 24 months)and a positive correlation between the central thickness of the optic nerve head and ICP at all points (73). OCT does not only monitor papillary edema in IIH but also predicts the ICP level non-invasively. The limitation of OCT in the detection of optic edema is that the penetrability of OCT is reduced due to the elevation and edema of the optic nerve, which may hinder the recognition of measurement markers (such as Bruch’s membrane) (74). Also, OCT cannot distinguish whether the decrease of optic disc thickness is due to the axonal loss of retinal ganglion cells caused by optic papilledema or the decrease of ICP (75).


VEP

The correlation between VEP and ICP was found in the 1980s (76). Haredy et al. studied 13 patients with cranial process neuropathy and found that the average latency of patients with elevated ICP (118.7 ms) was longer than that of patients with normal ICP (108.1 ms) and the average amplitude of patients with elevated ICP (12.4 µV) was significantly lower than that of patients with normal ICP (23.3 µV) (P=0.03), indicating the practicability of VEP in monitoring ICP (77). Vieira et al. studied 18 patients with cryptococcal meningitis and found that VEP N2 latency was strongly positively correlated with ICP (r=0.83; 95% CI: 0.60–0.94, P<0.0001) (78). Like OCT, the limitation of VEP is that elevated ICP has a negative effect on the visual pathway (e.g., causing optic atrophy), which will permanently affect the VEP test results, resulting in inaccurate estimation of the ICP (77).


Venous ophthalmodynamometry

Firsching et al. measured the pressure of the central retinal vein in 102 patients and statistically confirmed that the central retinal vein’s pressure was highly correlated with ICP. The increase of central retinal vein pressure indicated that ICP was increased; the probability of occurrence was 84.2%, and 92.8% of patients with normal central retinal vein pressure had normal ICP (23). The limitation of this method was that there was a significant difference between patients (79). Some studies have found that there is only a weak negative correlation between test performance and estimated ICP (80).


Spontaneous retinal venous pulsations

Spontaneous retinal venous pulsations assessed with both fundoscopy and infrared videos can be used to monitor the ICP. D’Antona et al. performed multiple linear regression analyses on 105 patients and confirmed that there was a significant correlation between ICP and spontaneous venous pulsation (r=–9.1; 95% CI: –13.7 to –4.6, P<0.001, adjusted R2=0.42). They found that infrared video assessment of spontaneous retinal vein pulsation was an effective indicator of elevated ICP in patients without papilledema (81). However, this method was limited to patients without papilloma, so its scope of application was limited (82).


Changes in eye tracking

Eye tracking can be used as a non-invasive automatic method to quantify the physiological effects of elevated ICP. Kolecki et al. performed eye tracking in 23 patients with ICP levels ranging from –3 to 30 mmHg 55 times. The results showed that eye-tracking measures related to cranial nerve function decreased linearly with the increase of ICP (P<0.001) (83). The main limitation of the method was the lack of continuous data in patients with high ICP records. Moreover, few patients with elevated ICP opened their eyes long enough for eye tracking to be performed. Also, all patients’ neuropathological status not only leads to an increase in ICP but also to other pathophysiological changes that may affect eye movement (84).


Discussion

ICP assessment plays an important role in the monitoring and early warning of neurological diseases and in determining the occurrence, development, and prognosis of many diseases. The non-invasive, safe, and accurate measurement of ICP has been clinicians’ focus for many years. Because of the optic nerve’s anatomic characteristics, most non-invasive ICP detection methods are focused on the optic nerve and its surroundings. ICP detection has 2 aspects. The first is the increase of ICP, which is suitable for tumor, trauma, hemorrhage, and other brain and spinal cord diseases. The second is that low ICP can be used to evaluate glaucoma in ophthalmology. Also, ophthalmic signs of low ICP have been found in patients with low CSF pressure/volume syndromes, such as spontaneous intracranial hypotension and CSF leaks. For the measurement of the optic nerve, the ONSD is the most commonly used method.

In most cases, the increase of ICP will lead to the transfer of CSF to ONS and increase the ONSD. Similarly, when the ICP decreases, CSF returns to the subarachnoid space, and ONSD decreases accordingly. However, the process mentioned above needs to follow the elastic conservation so that the ONS can return to the original diameter after expansion, which is suitable for the application of ONSD to estimate ICP (85). However, in some cases, such as the rupture of intracranial aneurysms, ICP can suddenly rise, which will cause acute irreversible expansion of the ONS. At this time, the ONSD cannot accurately reflect ICP changes (86). Also, when ICP is elevated for the long term, the ONS will lose its elasticity due to long-term expansion, and the optic nerve edema will continue well after the ICP returns to normal; optic nerve atrophy after the optic nerve edema subsidies will also make the ICP estimation inaccurate. Therefore, the application of the ONSD to evaluate ICP has its limitations (87).

However, the measurement of ONSD is mainly determined by ultrasound or MRI (35,57). However, they all estimate ICP through onsd on the premise that there is no pathological change in the optic nerve itself. For example, if the patient has optic neuritis or tumor and other diseases that can cause edema, thickening or atrophy of the optic nerve itself, then measuring onsd to estimate ICP will not be accurate (46,71). It is also important to understand the optic nerve changes after ICP increases or decreases and whether the change is immediate or delayed. This also has a great impact on the estimation and management of the disease. If ICP is increased for a long time, the ONS’s elasticity will decrease, and the irreversible damage of the optic nerve will also affect the results of ICP (85,87). Hansen et al. found that when a pressure load of ≥45–55 mmHg is applied, the ONSD no longer reaches its baseline value. Therefore, they proposed that when using ONSD detection to evaluate ICP in neurological intensive care and emergency medicine, the impaired reversibility of the ONSD should be considered after a prolonged duration of intracranial hypertension. A hysteresis model was proposed (88). Some studies have shown that there is an obvious correlation between the ONSD measured by ultrasound and MRI (89-91), but some studies have found that there is almost no consistency between the results of ultrasound and MRI (92). Other studies have shown that increasing the magnetic field intensity of MRI inspection can make the image resolution higher and clearer, which is more conducive to obtaining accurate ONSD values (58). Moreover, these are non-invasive measurements and are not gold standards, so it is unclear which methods can correctly reflect the actual ONSD value. Therefore, other detection methods need to be developed to limit this limitation (Table 1).

Table 1
Table 1 List of studies on non-invasive estimation of ICP
Full table

Studies have shown that ICP and IOP are both dynamic parameters in physiology. Both have circadian rhythm changes and similar and corresponding responses to temperature changes, body position, and chest and abdominal pressure. Nogueira et al. found that, the circadian rhythm pattern of body temperature is associated with further ICP values in patients with severe brain injury receiving hypothermia treatment (Pearson correlation: –0.861, adjusted R2=0.725, P<0.001) (93). Robba et al. prospectively studied 40 patients undergoing peritoneal endoscopic surgery. Three different methods were used for the non-invasive estimation of ICP, with a significant increase in ONSD after pneumonic injection combined with Trendelenburg position (94). The physiological cycle of IOP is clear (95), but the circadian rhythm pattern of ICP is not (96). Whether the changes of ICP and IOP will affect the detection results of the ONSD is still unknown. Liu et al. found that Valsalva maneuver increased ICP transiently, which was significantly higher than IOP (97). The CSF pressure measured during lumbar puncture is the value of lateral lying. A prospective study of 30 patients hospitalized in the neuro-intensive care unit showed a significant increase in ICP when they were placed at 15-degree right and left lateral positions and at a 45-degree right lateral position (98). According to Schwartz et al., ICP measurements in the prone position were significantly higher than those in the lateral position. The mean difference was 2.7 cmH2O (P<0.001) and 1.6 cmH2O (P=0.017) for prone flat and prone tilted, respectively (99). Some scholars found that whether the pressure of CSF in the spinal canal is consistent with that around the optic nerve is still uncertain. CSF around the optic nerve and in the ventricle is connected in the chiasmatic cistern, and there are many membranes in the chiasmatic cistern, which may restrict the free flow of CSF, change the dynamics of CSF, and affect the transmission of pressure (100,101). Also, all the examinations are instantaneous and cannot represent the long-term changes and fluctuations of ICP. Besides, the patient’s general condition may affect the ICP value. Some patients are in good general condition, such as patients with IIH or glaucoma, while others are in poor general condition, such as patients with traumatic brain injury or cerebral hemorrhage.

The above non-invasive ICP measurement methods of the optic nerve and its surrounding tissues are currently the focus of research. So far, MRI-ICP and TD-TCD have been more accurate and closer to invasive detection’s gold standard (64,65,93). Other technologies cannot directly obtain the values, and it is difficult to estimate ICP. Therefore, a conversion and correction formula needs to be developed (102). More in-depth research or more reliable detection methods should be developed to treat and judge ICP as a standard for treatment and prognosis. Non-invasive ICP detection for the optic nerve is the focus of current research but warrants further study. In future research, scholars’ challenges will be how to improve the accuracy and repeatability of detection. Also, the current detection indicators and application parameters are not unified, sample sizes are small, and there is a lack of large-scale, multi-center, and multi-ethnic research data and a lack of long-term tracking change results. Furthermore, due to patients’ different conditions, inspection standards may vary, and the credibility of the results is not high enough to form a suitable conclusion. Future research should consider using larger research populations, obtain more extensive data on ICP, develop more suitable new technology, and provide more help for clinical diagnosis and treatment of neurology and ophthalmic diseases.


Acknowledgments

Funding: This work was supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang Province (No. 2020D01A122), the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 2020-MS-07) and the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province (No. 2020-MS-01).


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Cite this article as: Li J, Wan C. Non-invasive detection of intracranial pressure related to the optic nerve. Quant Imaging Med Surg 2021;11(6):2823-2836. doi: 10.21037/qims-20-1188

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