Scanning provides an international and interdisciplinary medium for the rapid exchange of information among all scientists interested in scanning electron, scanning probe, and scanning optical microscopies. Areas of specific interest include all aspects of the instrumentation associated with scanning microscopies, correlative microscopy techniques, stereometry, stereology, analytic techniques, and novel applications of the microscopies.

掃描為所有對掃描電子、掃描探針和掃描光學顯微鏡感興趣的科學家之間快速交換信息提供了一種國際性和跨學科的媒介。特別關注的領域包括與掃描顯微鏡相關的儀器的所有方面、相關顯微鏡技術、立體測量、體視學、分析技術以及顯微鏡的新應用。