Lung ultrasound detects regional aeration inhomogeneity in ventilated preterm lambs.

"Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study is supported by the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program (Melbourne, Australia) and an Ideas grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; Grant ID 1182676). A.S. is supported by a research grant from the Australasian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (Grant ID RG 2022/1), a PhD scholarship from the Centre of Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine, Melbourne (NHMRC, Australia; GNT1153176), and a Research Training Program PhD fee-offset scholarship from the Victorian Government. DGT is supported by a NHMRC Leadership Level 1 Investigator Grant (GNT2008212). GE Healthcare provided the Logiq E ultrasound system but were not involved in study design, analysis, interpretation of results or drafting and revising the manuscript. Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions."