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)

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 subsdiaries of the Finnish HKScan Oyj

Electronics or computer related:

• Counter-scanning, in physical micro and nanotopography measuring instruments
• Elevator algorithm (also SCAN) disk scheduling algorithm
• Image scanner
• image scanning
• Optical character recognition, optical recognition of printed text or printed sheet music
• Port scanner in computer networking
• Scan chain, a type of manufacturing test used with Integrated Circuits

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

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
• Scan (horse) (born 1988), an American thoroughbred racehorse and stallion

[edit] See also

• scanner

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