Meanings
alternative scannography
- uncountablemedicineThe production of radiographs by scanning with X-rays through a moving, thin slit.
In some modern panoramic units, programs for scanography are available. A scanogram is an image of a restricted area obtained using a narrow collimated radiation beam and a moving image receptor, much the same as applied for the panoramic technique.
2013, Goran Koch, Sven Poulsen, editors, Pediatric Dentistry: A Clinical Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 87 - uncountableartThe process of capturing digitized images of objects using a flatbed scanner for the purpose of creating photographic prints.
In 2009, she had her first exhibition at Tashkeel in Dubai where she debuted work using scanography, a process of creating photographic prints from layered images captured with a flatbed scanner.
2023, Sabrina DeTurk, Women and Contemporary Art in the Gulf, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
Origin
Blend of scan + radiography or scanner + photography.
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