Scan

Scan may refer to:

Acronyms:

• Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), a psychiatric diagnostic tool developed by WHO
• Shared Check Authorization Network (SCAN), a database of bad check writers and collection agency for bad checks
• Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN)
• Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (journal)

Businesses:

• Scan Furniture, a retail chain based in Washington, D.C. specializing in Scandinavian furniture
• Scan AB or Scan Foods UK Ltd, the Swedish and UK subsidiaries of the Finnish HKScan Oyj
• Seattle Community Access Network (SCAN) is the public access TV channel is Seattle, Washington
• Scan (organisation), a software company based in Provo, Utah

Electronics or computer related:

• Counter-scanning, in physical micro and nanotopography measuring instruments like scanning probe microscope
• Elevator algorithm (also SCAN) disk scheduling algorithm
• Image scanning
• Optical character recognition, optical recognition of printed text or printed sheet music
• Port scanner in computer networking
• Prefix sum is an operation on lists that is also known as the scan operator
• Scan chain, a type of manufacturing test used with integrated circuits
• Graham scan, an algorithm for finding the convex hull of a set of points in the plane
• Scan line
• Raster scan

Medical:

• Medical ultrasonography, the medical procedure for examining internal structures, especially when applied to developing foetuses in the womb
• X-ray computed tomography
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Switch Access Scanning, a technique that allows users with motor impairments to use a computer using switch access
• Partner assisted scanning, a technique that allows a person with severe disabilities to communicate

Other uses:

• Systems of scansion, the analysis of writing and verse regarding rhythmic and especially metrical structure
• "Scan" (Prison Break episode), an episode of the television series Prison Break

See also

• SCAN
• Scanner (disambiguation)