Scan may refer to:
Acronyms
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Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry
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 ...
(SCAN), a psychiatric diagnostic tool developed by WHO
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Shared Check Authorization Network (SCAN), a database of bad check writers and collection agency for bad checks
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Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN)
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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (journal)
* Scientific content analysis (SCAN), also known as
statement analysis
Businesses
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Scan Furniture, Washington, D.C., US chain
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SCAN Health Plan, not-for-profit health care company based in Long Beach, California
* Scan AB or Scan Foods UK Ltd, the Swedish and UK subsidiaries of the Finnish
HKScan Oyj
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Seattle Community Access Network
Seattle Community Access Network (SCAN) is one of the Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television channels in Seattle, Washington. The station provides camera equipment, television studios and training that allow residents ...
, Seattle, Washington, US TV channel
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Scan (company), a software company based in Provo, Utah, US
Electronics or computer related
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3D scanning
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Counter-scanning Counter-scanning (CS) is a scanning method that allows correcting raster distortions caused by drift of the probe of scanning microscope relative to the measured surface. During counter-scanning two surface scans, viz., direct scan and counter scan ...
, in physical micro and nanotopography measuring instruments like
scanning probe microscope
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 ...
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Elevator algorithm
The elevator algorithm (also SCAN) is a disk- scheduling algorithm to determine the motion of the disk's arm and head in servicing read and write requests.
This algorithm is named after the behavior of a building elevator, where the elevator co ...
(also SCAN) disk scheduling algorithm
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Image scanning
An image scanner—often abbreviated to just scanner—is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting or an object and converts it to a digital image. Commonly used in offices are variations of the desktop ''flatbed scanner'' ...
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Optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...
, optical recognition of printed text or printed sheet music
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Port scanner
A port scanner is an application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. Such an application may be used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to identify network services running on a host ...
in computer networking
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Prefix sum In computer science, the prefix sum, cumulative sum, inclusive scan, or simply scan of a sequence of numbers is a second sequence of numbers , the sums of prefixes ( running totals) of the input sequence:
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For instance, the prefix sums ...
is an operation on lists that is also known as the scan operator
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Scan chain
Scan chain is a technique used in design for testing. The objective is to make testing easier by providing a simple way to set and observe every flip-flop in an IC.The basic structure of scan include the following set of signals in order to con ...
, a type of manufacturing test used with integrated circuits
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Graham scan
Graham's scan is a method of finding the convex hull of a finite set of points in the plane with time complexity O(''n'' log ''n''). It is named after Ronald Graham, who published the original algorithm in 1972. The algorithm finds all vertices ...
, an algorithm for finding the convex hull of a set of points in the plane
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Scan line
A scan line (also scanline) is one line, or row, in a raster scanning pattern, such as a line of video on a cathode ray tube (CRT) display of a television set or computer monitor.
On CRT screens the horizontal scan lines are visually discernible ...
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Screen reading Screen reading is the act of reading a text on a computer screen, smartphone, e-book reader,
Discovery
Louis Émile Javal, a French ophthalmologist and founder of an ophthalmology laboratory in Paris is credited with the introduction of the term ...
on computers to quickly locate text elements and images
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Raster scan
A raster scan, or raster scanning, is the rectangular pattern of image capture and reconstruction in television. By analogy, the term is used for raster graphics, the pattern of image storage and transmission used in most computer bitmap image ...
Medical
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DMSA scan
A DMSA scan is a radionuclide scan that uses dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) in assessing renal morphology, structure and function. Radioactive technetium-99m is combined with DMSA and injected into a patient, followed by imaging with a gamma cam ...
, a radionuclide scan used in kidney studies
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Medical imaging
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Medical ultrasonography, the medical procedure for examining internal structures, especially when applied to developing foetuses in the womb
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CT scan
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Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI scan
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Switch Access Scanning, a technique that allows users with motor impairments to use a computer using switch access
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Partner assisted scanning
Partner-assisted scanning or listener-assisted scanning is an augmentative and alternative communication technique used to enable a person with severe speech impairments to communicate. The approach is used with individuals who, due to sickness o ...
, a technique that allows a person with severe disabilities to communicate
Other uses
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Systems of scansion
Scansion ( , rhymes with ''mansion''; verb: ''to scan''), or a system of scansion, is the method or practice of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical pattern of a line of verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are ...
, the analysis of writing and verse regarding rhythmic and especially metrical structure
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SCAN, a set of tools created by WHO aimed at diagnosing and measuring mental illness
* ''
Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture'', former online journal published by Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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''SCAN'' (newspaper), the student newspaper at Lancaster University
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"Scan" (''Prison Break'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Prison Break''
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''Scanning'' (journal), a scientific journal published by Hindawi
See also
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Scanner (disambiguation)
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Skan (disambiguation)
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