A wide variety of scanning technologies exist to fulfill a variety of needs. The most common of those technologies is Electron Neutrino Deviation Imaging, abbreviated as ENDI. ENDI scans an object with several electron neutrino beams, which only weakly interact with most matter. The electron neutrino beams are tracked and compared to advanced statistical models to determine the placement of type of molecules at points where at least six beams intersect. Typically these scans are done quickly at a moderate resolution to give a passably accurate idea of the structure of an object, but at the high end, these scans can provide a complete picture of an object, determining the location and type of each molecule within it.
In manufacturing, ENDI scanning has proven vital to quality assurance in molecular construction, though, it has been abused in the past for corporate espionage of trademarked goods, leading to a competitive nature in keeping prototypes and test models locked down and secure, sometimes installing fail-safes that cause certain vital portions of a device or structure to break down upon the detection of typical ENDI beam patterns. ENDI scanning has also found use in many other sectors, especially the medical sector where they are used extensively by high end hospitals to scan the human body's molecular composition. They are also used by many police forces to scan for contraband items, and high-power ENDI scanners can be installed on ships to scan the cargo of another ship (albeit with only a moderate resolution).
ENDI scanners are incredibly accurate, precise, and potentially invasive. However, ENDI scanners tend to be rather bulky and expensive components that use up a good chunk of power while performing a scan. There are also some methods of thwarting ENDI scans, such as ENDI scattering foils, ENDI decoy probes, and Xari.
High-resolution ENDI scans, if stored in memory, take up a significant amount of storage space.