scanography

English

Etymology

Blend of scan +‎ radiography or scanner +‎ photography.

Noun

scanography (uncountable)

1. (radiography) The production of radiographs by scanning with X-rays through a moving, thin slit.
   • 2013, Goran Koch, Sven Poulsen, editors, Pediatric Dentistry: A Clinical Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 87:

     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.

2. (art) The process of capturing digitized images of objects using a flatbed scanner for the purpose of creating photographic prints.
   • 2023, Sabrina DeTurk, Women and Contemporary Art in the Gulf, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     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.

Alternative forms

• scannography (arts)

Related terms

• scanogram
• scanographic

See also

• Xerox art

Anagrams

• cyanographs