Ultrasound Scan Images

[mallorn]

I'm told that ultrasound images are light sensitive and will fade... can they be scanned using a flatbed scanner, or will that wipe the image? HAs anybody tried this?

[snotmonkey]

i dont think it would fade any quicker than any other printed image regardless of how it was originally captured. dont leave it in direct sunlight for a couple of weeks and you should be ok

[incitatus]

I would scan it if i were you, then keep the original in an album in the dark.. All photos fade in light, and so do many printing methods.

[rekstout]

Sometimes the printers on equipment such as ultrasound scanners are thermal printers which use heated elements to mark heat sensitive paper. So, like a cheap fax, the image will darken and yellow as the heat sensitive compound in the paper decays. My concern would be that a scanner or photocopier lamp would be sufficiently hot that it would wipe out the image. Thermal paper would be very thin and smooth, some ultrasound scanners print onto photo quality paper using conventional inkjet methods and these images will keep.scan better. If there is some border around the original image you could trim some off and try that in a scanner to see if it blackens.