Digital imaging
Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, such as of a physical scene or of the interior structure of an object.
Description
The term is often assumed to imply or include the processing, compression, storage, printing, and display of such images. See Data (computing).
Digital imaging can be classified by the type of electromagnetic radiation or other waves whose variable attenuation, as they pass through or reflect off objects, conveys the information that constitutes the image.
In all classes of digital imaging, the information is converted by image sensors into digital signals that are processed by a computer and outputted as a visible-light image.
Examples
- The medium of visible light allows digital photography (including digital videography) with various kinds of digital cameras (including digital video cameras).
- X-rays allow digital X-ray imaging (digital radiography, fluoroscopy, and CT), and gamma rays allow digital gamma ray imaging (digital scintigraphy, SPECT, and PET).
- Sound allows ultrasonography (such as medical ultrasonography) and sonar, and radio waves allow radar.
Digital imaging lends itself well to image analysis by software, as well as to image editing (including image manipulation).
See also
External Links
- Digital imaging @ Wikipedia
