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)
- SCAN（International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computation）, international conference about numerical analysis, especially validated numerics, computer-assisted proof and interval arithmetic.
- Scientific content analysis (SCAN), also known as statement analysis
Businesses
- Scan Furniture, Washington, D.C., US chain
- Scan AB or Scan Foods UK Ltd, the Swedish and UK subsidiaries of the Finnish HKScan Oyj
- Seattle Community Access Network, Seattle, Washington, US TV channel
- Scan (company), a software company based in Provo, Utah, US
- 3D scanning
- 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
- Screen reading on computers to quickly locate text elements and images
- Raster scan
Medical
- DMSA scan, a radionuclide scan used in kidney studies
- Medical imaging
- Medical ultrasonography, the medical procedure for examining internal structures, especially when applied to developing foetuses in the womb
- CT scan
- Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI scan
- 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, a set of tools created by WHO aimed at diagnosing and measuring mental illness
- SCAN (newspaper), the student newspaper at Lancaster University
- "Scan" (Prison Break episode), an episode of the television series Prison Break
- Scanning (journal), a scientific journal published by Hindawi
See also
- Scanner (disambiguation)
- Skan (disambiguation)