The phrase "scan around" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to indicate that someone is looking around at something. Example Sentence: I scanned around the room, looking for my keys.
Every woman had a dating scan around 12 weeks gestation (range 7 23 weeks) and gestation was determined by this method for women with irregular/unreliable menstrual cycles or if it differed from the LMP estimate by more than 10 days (n = 330).
When looking at the text, try not to scan around by moving the eye; move your head in stead.
He received a CT scan around 8 a.m.
A quick scan around the internet reveals these lateral-thinking gems.
"We can scan around a window or a door and tell you immediately if you're losing energy".
The transducer, driven by a computer-controlled step motor to scan around the object, detected the resulting acoustic signals in the imaging plane at each scanning position.
Scanning around, I counted maybe half a dozen women in my immediate line of sight, in an audience probably in the three-figure mark.
Jordan and the couple start scanning around and I stumble towards the bar.
Expecting it to be an update about the Patriots or the Lakers, I scanned around, making sure the teachers would not see me.
While my son craned his neck to look at the bumpy thing hanging from a tree branch, I chewed my cheek, scanning around wildly.
Sometimes the sentinel flies directly to its guard post, but more often it climbs the tree, scanning around, then climbs to a higher and more exposed position and sometimes flies off to another tree.
