Nisonic demonstrates automatic measurements of optic nerve sheath diameter as a marker for increased intracranial pressure using transorbital ultrasound at Medica in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Düsseldorf, Germany, November 18th, 2019. Nisonic AS, a startup co-founded by SINTEF and Cofounder in Norway, aims to make intracranial pressure (ICP) assessment as simple and easy as measuring body temperature. Nisonic is developing a novel method using properties of the optic nerve sheath to determine the patient’s ICP. The method has been developed through a collaboration between neurosurgeon Dr. Llewellyn Padayachy, at that time working at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, scientists Reidar Brekken (Sr. Scientist, SINTEF) and Tormod Selbekk (SINTEF, now CTO,