Imaging

Imaging

Imaging is the formation of an image.

Imaging may also refer to:

* Digital imaging, creating digital images, generally by scanning, or through digital photography
* Medical imaging, creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease
* Radar imaging, or imaging radar, for obtaining an image of an object, not just its location and speed
* Chemical imaging, the simultaneous measurement of spectra and pictures
* Personal imaging, realtime sharing of personal experience through images
* Stereo imaging, an aspect of sound recording and reproduction concerning spatial locations of the performers
* Document imaging, replicating documents commonly used in business
* Creating a disk image, a file which contains the exact content of a storage medium
* Imaging for Windows, a software product for scanning paper documents

ee also

*Imaging technology
* Imaging science, which includes many fields of science
* Remote sensing, imaging the Earth or a planet from space or aircraft


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