09262 IUPAC Gold Book - line scan 10.1351/goldbook.09262 09262 current 1 Plot of output signal intensity from a spectrometer, signal intensity from another detector, or processed intensity information from the available software along a line corresponding to a line on the sample surface. The line is most often an x- or y-linescan from a rectangular raster, but, in more sophisticated systems, might be in any arbitrary direction. raster https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09274 PAC, 2020, 92, 1781. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 1807 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09262/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09262/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09262/plain Citation: 'line scan' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09262 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-24T00:33:35+00:00