超聲檢查是新生兒疾病診斷不可缺少的重要輔助、甚至確診手段。有關(guān)兒童超聲診斷方面的專著，雖然涉及到新生兒，但因其不是重點(diǎn)內(nèi)容，故介紹不詳盡?！缎律鷥悍闻K疾病超聲診斷學(xué)（英文版）》的特點(diǎn)是：①全面、綜合、系統(tǒng)介紹超聲技術(shù)在新生兒肺臟疾病診斷中的應(yīng)用；②注重介紹每種疾病的超聲影像學(xué)表現(xiàn)及診斷要點(diǎn)，便于相關(guān)專業(yè)醫(yī)師全面掌握和了解，具有實(shí)用性和可讀性；③反映相關(guān)領(lǐng)域的很新進(jìn)展；

　　Jing Liu， Ph.D.， M.D.， is the Director of the Department of Neonatology and NICU，Beijing Chaoyang District Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital. He is skilled at neonatal intensive critical care and neonatal brain and lung ultrasound. His academic positions include Associate Chairman of Chinese Neonatologist Association，Chairman of the Specialized Committee on Chinese Maternal Origin Neonatal Disease Research， Associate Chairman of Beijing Neonatology Association， and Associate Chairman of Perinatal Medicine Section，Chinese Academy of Pediatrics. In addition， he is an editorial member of more than 20 Chinese and English journals. Dr. Jing Liu has published more than 280 papers， over 12 books， and book chapters. His research work has been supported by the China Natural Science Foundation， among other orga-nization， and he has won 12 awards for science and technology granted by the government of China.Erich Sorantin was born in 1957 and stud-ied medicine at the Alma Mater Rudolfina in Vienna， Austria. After graduation he was trained as a general practitioner， followed by a full residency in pediatrics， and after switching to the Department of Radiology，Medical University Graz， he added another residency in radiology with a special focus on pediatric radiology. He obtained a profes-sorship in 2002. Since 2013 he has served as acting head of the Division of Pediatric Radiology， Department of Radiology，Medical University Graz， Graz， Austria.His scientific interests include， besides pediatric radiology， biocomputing， biosimu-lation， radiation protection， noninvasive imaging， signal and image process-ing， and artificial intelligence.As a pediatrician he published a paper on computing neonatal mechanical ventilation.ln 1995-1996 he led the first EC research project at the University of Graz in breast cancer detection and artificial intelligence. He served as consultant to Siemens for computer graphics for more than 10 years， and the virtual endoscopy part of two workstations was partly developed by him.Additionally， he introduced digital imaging for children at his institution.Moreover， he optimized Computed Tomography at the Medical University of Graz and several software applications for pediatric use. He also obtained a license as an ultrasound instructor.He published and authored more than 300 papers， which have received 1244 citations and received 20 awards.Furthermore， Dr. Sorantin is the network coordinator for a Iarge-scale，multi-institutional， international network （www.ceepus.org） covering more than 40 academic institutions and organizing six summer/winter schools every year， in addition to supporting interdisciplinary research.Dr. Sorantin has been married for more than 30 years and has three adult sons.Hai-Ying Cao， M.D.， has 10 years of expe-rience as an ultrasound doctor and for morethan 5 years served as direct of ultrasounddepartment. Later， she joined GE Ltd.（China） specializing in clinical education orapplication. Dr. Hai-Ying Cao has extensiveclinical experience and comprehensive skillsand has coauthored several books and pub-lished almost 20 papers.