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Imaging may refer to:

In medicine and biology:

• Medical imaging, creating images of the human body or parts of it, to diagnose or examine disease
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a non-invasive method to render images of living tissues
• Ultrasound imaging, using very high frequency sound to visualize muscles and internal organs
• Optical imaging, a technique to allow cognitive neuroscientists to "see" brain activity
• Molecular imaging, used to study molecular pathways inside organisms
• Imaging agent, a chemical designed to allow clinicians to determine whether a mass is benign or malignant
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging, using the decay rate of a fluorescent sample
• Optoacoustic imaging, using the photothermal effect, for the accuracy of spectroscopy with the depth resolution of ultrasound
• Gallium imaging, a nuclear medicine method for the detection of infections and cancers
• Diffuse optical imaging, using near-infrared light to generate images of the body
• Photoacoustic Imaging, a technique to detect vascular disease and cancer using non-ionizing laser pulses
• Calcium imaging, determining the calcium status of a tissue using fluorescent light
• Diffusion-weighted imaging, a type of MRI that uses water diffusion
• Bioluminescence imaging, a technique for studying laboratory animals using luminescent protein
• Imaging studies, which includes many medical imaging techniques

In physics:

• Radar imaging, or imaging radar, for obtaining an image of an object, not just its location and speed
• Phase-contrast imaging, a method of imaging in transmission electron microscopy
• Hyperspectral imaging, a technique in electron microscopy
• Fluorescence lifetime imaging, imaging that uses differences in the decay rate of a fluorescent sample
• Bistatic imaging, using two radar instruments to map a surface
• Chemical imaging, the simultaneous measurement of spectra and pictures
• Subwavelength imaging, a technique for visualizing features which are smaller than the wavelength of the photons in use\
• Annular dark-field imaging, a method of mapping samples in a scanning transmission electron microscope
• Neutral Atom Imaging, a technique used on spacecraft to image magnetospheric and ionospheric plasma
• Magnetic Particle Imaging a technique that measures the magnetic fields generated by magnetic particles in a tracer
• Photoelectron Imaging, a novel approach to photoelectron spectroscopy where the photoelectron cloud resulting from interaction of molecules or anions with laser light is projected on a position-sensitive detector, allowing for simulteneous determination of the photoelectron energy spectra and angular distributions

In astronomy:

• Speckle imaging, combining a number of very short exposure images
• Lucky imaging, a specialized form of speckle imaging with carefully selected images

In geology:

• Electrical resistivity imaging, a geophysical method of subsurface investigation
• Magnetotellurics, ibid.

In computing and business:

• Digital imaging, creating digital images, generally by scanning, or through digital photography
• Dynamic imaging, an amalgamation of digital imaging and workflow automation
• Document imaging, replicating documents commonly used in business
• Imaging for Windows, a software product for scanning paper documents
• Media Imaging, creating an exact duplicate of an original media source (often for electronic forensic purposes)

In music:

• Stereo imaging, an aspect of sound recording and reproduction concerning spatial locations of the performers

Other:

• Imaging science, which includes many fields of science
• Personal imaging, realtime sharing of personal experience through images
• Integral imaging, a method for viewing stereo (3D) images without special glasses

• Imaging technology

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