Abstract: Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and photothermographic imaging materials include photosensitive silver halide grains that are predominantly homogeneous and comprise at least 20 mol % iodide based on total silver in the grains. These materials provide desired Dmax and reduced image “print out”.

Abstract: Thermally developable compositions such thermographic and photothermographic emulsions include certain triazine-thione compounds. These emulsions can be used in thermally developable materials such as thermographic and photothermographic materials to provide increased image density and shortened development time, and to allow development at lower temperatures. Such materials can have imaging layers on one or both sides of the support.

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive emulsion containing a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a compound represented by the following formula (A-1) or (B) and a compound represented by the following formula (A-2).

Abstract: Antistatic compositions include a fluorochemical that is a reaction product of Rf—CH2CH2—SO3H with an amine wherein Rf comprises 4 or more fully fluorinated carbon atoms. These antistatic compositions can be formulated in organic solvent-based conductive coating compositions, with or without hydrophobic binders, that can be used to form conductive layers in thermally developable materials including thermographic and photothermographic materials.

Abstract: The present invention provides the photothermographic material including a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for reducing silver ions, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content ranging from 40 mol % to 100 mol %, and has a particle size ranging from 5 nm to 80 nm, and wherein the non-photosensitive organic silver salt is prepared in the presence of the photosensitive silver halide which has been preformed, such that the non-photosensitive organic silver salt includes the photosensitive silver halide.

Abstract: The invention provides a heat developable photosensitive material including a substrate, and at least one constituent layer which contains a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for thermal developing and a binder. The material includes at least one reducing agent that does not form a dye at the time of thermal developing and at least one reducing forming a dye at the time of thermal developing, and the dye-forming reducing agent is more active than the reducing agent that does not form a dye at the time of thermal developing.

Abstract: An image forming method using a photothermographic material including, on at least one surface of a support, at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, in which (1) the photothermographic material is exposed and thermally developed during transportation at a transportation speed of 23 mm/sec or faster, (2) the non-photosensitive organic silver salt contains 30 mol % to 85 mol % of silver behenate and an amount of the time untill a leading end of the photothermographic material reaches a thermal development station after a power source for ae thermal developing apparatus is turned on is 15 minutes or less, or (3) a coating amount of silver inf the photothermographic material is 1.9 g/m2 or less and a thermal development time is 12 sec or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material comprising, on one side of a support, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive silver salt of an organic acid, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, which is characterized by containing one or more phenol compounds as the reducing agent and one or more compounds satisfying at least one of the following requirements A and B in combination:

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support, an organic silver salt, a light-sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a contrast-increasing agent, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a secondary or tertiary amino group-containing alkoxysilane compound and a polyethyleneimine. A light-shielding package of photothermographic material is also disclosed.

Abstract: Aqueous-based photothermographic materials comprise a hydrophilic binder, preformed silver halides, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent composition, and one or more benzothiazolium, benzoselenazolium, or benzotellurazolium salts as antifoggants. These photothermographic materials can be used in combination with phosphor intensifying screens for radiographic imaging.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aqueous dispersions of silver (carboxylate-azine toner) particles wherein the azine content of the particles is from about 0.01 to 10% by weight relative to silver carboxylate. The carboxylates are typically silver salts of long chain fatty acids and the azine toners are the compounds that function as development accelerators and toning agents such as phthalazine. These silver (carboxylate-azine) particles can be used to formulate imaging forming compositions that are useful in aqueous thermographic or photothermographic imaging elements.

Abstract: Aqueous-based thermally sensitive emulsions and imaging materials include a mixture of binders in at least one imaging layer. These binder mixtures include from 70 to about 99 weight % of hydrophilic binders such as gelatin and gelatin derivatives, and the remainder of the total binder weight is composed of one or more hydrophobic binders or water-dispersible polymer latexes. These binder mixtures are particularly useful in imaging layers of thermographic and photothermographic materials and provide long term keeping and reduced crystallization of fatty acids.

Abstract: A photothermographic material that comprises a support having thereon one or more thermally-developable imaging layers comprising a binder and in reactive association, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions, and a reducing composition for the non-photosensitive source reducible silver ions. The thermally-developable layers further comprises one or more radiation absorbing compounds that provide a total absorbance of greater than 0.6 and up to and including 3 in the thermally-developable imaging layer(s). These photothermographic materials exhibit reduced mottle without significant loss in sensitivity.

Abstract: Novel silver compounds can include a primary core of a photosensitive silver halide and a shell covering the primary core. This shell includes one or more non-photosensitive silver salts, each silver salt including an organic silver coordinating ligand. Other novel silver compounds are homogeneous silver salts of organic silver coordinating ligands throughout (non-core-shell). Still other silver compounds can include a primary core of a non-photosensitive metal salt and a shell covering the primary core. This shell includes one or more non-photosensitive silver salts, each silver salt including an organic silver coordinating ligand. These types of silver compounds can be used as sources of reducible silver ions in thermally developable imaging materials including thermographic and photothermographic materials.

Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion and a binder on one surface of a support, wherein a silver behenate-content of the non-photosensitive organic silver salt is 40 to 70 mol %, and the photothermographic material comprises a compound that can be one-electron-oxidized to provide a one-electron oxidation product, which further releases at least 1 electron, one of during and after a subsequent reaction.

Abstract: A photothermographic recording material comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element, the photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a mixture of a substantially light-insensitive silver salt of a monocarboxylic acid and a substantially light-insensitive compound exclusive of silver succinate represented by formula (I): AgOOC—R1—COOAg wherein R1 is a straight chain saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group with two or three carbon atoms, optionally substituted with one or more of ═O, ═S, ═CR2R3, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an amino group, a substituted amino group, a cycloalkyl group, a hydroxy group, a thiol group, an alkyl sulphone group, an aryl sulphone group, an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, a thioalkyl group, a thioaryl, a carbamic ester group, a halogen atom or a —(C═O)R4 group; wherein if R1 is substituted with two substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl, thioalkyl, substituted amino and alkox

Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic emulsion in which a silver emulsion high in silver iodide content of 80% by mol to 100% by mol based on the silver iodide content is chemically sensitized by at least one of methods of chalcogen sensitization and gold sensitization under the conditions that pAg is from 1.5 to 7.0, as well as a thermally developable photosensitive material having at least one image forming layer containing at least a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder on a support, and having at least one non-image recording protection layer to the image forming layer on the side remote from the support, and exposed by a laser beam in which the material contains the silver emulsion high in silver iodide content.

Abstract: Organic solvent-based photothermographic materials comprise one or more mercaptotriazoles represented by the following Structure I as toner(s): 1

Abstract: Aqueous-based photothermographic materials comprise a hydrophilic binder, preformed silver halides, an organic silver salt other than a silver carboxylate, a reducing agent composition, and one or more mercaptotriazoles as toners in one or more thermally developable imaging layers. These layers have a pH less than 7. These photothermographic materials can be used in combination with phosphor intensifying screens for radiographic imaging.

Abstract: The present invention relates to, a thermally developable photosensitive material containing a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide and a reducing agent on at least one surface of a transparent substrate, wherein a fog density value immediately after thermal developing treatment is 0.20 or less, a value of b0* in the following equation (1) at a fog density portion satisfies −20≦b0* <−4, and a change in an image tone from immediately after thermal developing treatment to after a point when an amount of time has passed as a value of a color difference &Dgr;E as defined in the equation (1) is any one of (a) 1.2 or less at 9 months under an environment of 30° C. and 60% RH, (b) 1.2 or less at 3 months under an environment of 40° C. and 40% RH, or (c) 0.9 or less at 1 week under an environment of 45° C. and 40% RH.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion is described, comprising at least a dispersion medium and silver halide grains, wherein said silver halide grains have an average grain size of from 0.005 to 0.1 &mgr;m and a hexacyano metal complex represented by formula (I) is present on the outermost surface of the silver halide grain: [M(CN)6]n−  (I) wherein M represents Fe, Ru, Os, Co, Rh, Ir, Cr or Re, and n represents 3 or 4. Also described are a method for producing the emulsion, and a silver halide light-sensitive material and a photothermographic material using the emulsion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material including a support having disposed on one surface thereof at least one image-forming layer containing a binder, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent for reducing silver ions, an organic polyhalogen compound and a photosensitive silver halide, wherein the photosensitive silver halide has a silver iodide content ranging from 10 mol % to 100 mol %. The silver halide further contains at least one metal selected from a first metal group and one metal selected from a second metal group, with a proviso that none of the at least one metal selected from the first metal group and the at least one metal selected from the second metal group are the same.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel heat-developable photosensitive material which hardly exerts an influence on the image color tone and exhibits high sensitivity.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a photothermographic material improved in the aging stability of unprocessed photosensitive material and/or in the image stability after the processing, which is a photothermographic material of the invention comprising a support and on the same surface of the support, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the concentration of chloride contained on the same surface is 1,000 ppm or less based on the organic silver salt.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat developing photosensitive material comprising, on one side of a support, a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for a silver ion, and a binder; and further comprising an aromatic carboxylic acid compound represented by a general formula (2), which is on the same side as the photosensitive silver halide, and a development promoter; which reducing agent includes a compound represented by a general formula (1) below.

Abstract: A process for preparing a photothermographic material with increased photosensitivity, the photothermographic material comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element, exclusive of a compound R—S(M)n wherein R is an aliphatic hydrocarbon, aryl or heterocyclic group, M is a hydrogen atom, or cation, and letter n is a number determined so as to render the molecule neutral and also exclusive of a compound capable of releasing a mobile dye corresponding to or inversely corresponding to the reduction of silver halide to silver at elevated temperatures, the photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a photosensitive agent in catalytic association with a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for the light-insensitive organic silver salt in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, comprising the steps of: (i) increasing the photosensitivity of a photosensitive silver halide by chemical sensitisation with a chemical sensitising merocyanine

Abstract: A mono-sheet heat-developable photosensitive material, which comprises a layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic fatty acid silver salt, a thermal developer and a binder on a support, and exhibits substantially no sensitivity after being subjected to heat-development.

Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising at least (a) a photosensitive silver halide, (b) a reducible silver salt, (c) a reducing agent represented by the following formula (1), (d) a binder, and (e) a phenol compound represented by the following formula (2) on the same side of a support: wherein, in the formula (1), V1 to V8 each independently represent hydrogen atom or a substituent, L represents a bridging group consisting of —CH(V9)— or —S—, and V9 represents hydrogen atom or a substituent; wherein, in the formula (2), R1 and R2 each independently represent hydrogen atom or a substituent, X1 to X3 each independently represent hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that the substituents represented by X1 to X3 do not represent hydroxy group, and when the substituents represented by X1 to X3 are bonded to the phenol ring via nitrogen atoms, X1 to X3 represent a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group or a group represented as —NH—C(&bo

Abstract: Thermally developable materials include a reducing agent composition that can reduce silver ions and provide high contrast images. The reducing agent composition includes a) a hindered phenol reducing agent, an aromatic di- or tri-hydroxy compound, or mixtures thereof, and b) a thermally-releasable p-phenylenediamine co-developer that is represented by the following Structure I: R—NH-BLOCK  (I) wherein R—NH— is a p-phenylenediamine group and BLOCK is a blocking group that is cleaved upon exposure to at least 120° C. for at least 5 seconds and comprises one or more of the following thermally cleavable groups: —CONH—, —COO—, —CONHSO2—, —PO3—, —SO2—, —COCH2NHCO—, or —COS—, and BLOCK is directly linked to R—NH— through one of the thermally cleavable groups.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a method of making a color photothermographic element such as a capture film intended to be developed to yield an image by the application of heat, preferably without the addition of processing solutions. In particular, this invention relates to the annealing of a photothermographic imaging element prior to storage and use. It has been found that the use of such an annealing process improves raw stock storage and hence, the performance of color photothermographic systems.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material comprising a support and an image forming layer provided thereon, the image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, the photothermographic material meets at least one of the following conditions of (i) and (ii):

Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising: a substrate; and a photosensitive silver halide, anon-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder, in a same region defined by the substrate, wherein the photothermographic material further comprises a fluorine compound which comprises at least one fluoroalkyl group having 2 or more of carbon atoms and not more than 13 of fluorine atoms and at least one of anionic and nonionic hydrophilic groups, and 40 to 98% by mol of the non-photosensitive organic silver salts are silver behenate.

Abstract: A photothermographic imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains, light-insensitive organic silver salt grains, a binder, and a reducing agent for silver ions, wherein the silver halide grains are capable of: (a) forming surface latent images when exposed prior to heating development; and (b) forming internal latent images when exposed after heating development.

Abstract: The present invention provides a spectrally sensitized photothermographic silver halide element support having a first surface and a second surface, a photothermographic composition that is to be exposed to a laser being disposed on the first surface of the support. The element has at least one back layer disposed on the second surface of the support. The photothermographic composition comprises silver halide emulsion grains having a number average grain size of less than 0.1 &mgr;m and that are spectrally sensitized with a sensitizing dye having a spectral sensitivity that corresponds to the spectral properties of the laser. The photothermographic composition further comprises an organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and at least one dye. In addition, the photothermographic composition has a transmission optical density greater than 0.1 at the exposure wavelength, and the back layer has a transmission optical density greater than 0.1 at the exposure wavelength.

Abstract: A photothermographic recording material comprising on one side of a support an image recording layer comprising a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the difference in specular glossiness at an angle of 60° between a thermally developed exposed area of the image recording layer and the bottom support surface opposite the exposed area of the recording material is at least 15.

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, further thereon a protective layer and optionally an interlayer between the support and the image forming layer, wherein at least one of the image forming layer and the interlayer contains an alkoxy-silane compound having at least two primary or secondary amino groups or a salt thereof or a Schiff base formed through dehydration condensation of an alkoxy-silane compound having at least one primary amino group and a ketone compound.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to dispersions of silver (carboxylate-n-alkyl thiolate). The carboxylates are typically silver salts of long chain fatty acids and the n-alkyl thiolate is preferably 1-dodecanethiol. These silver (carboxylate-n-alkyl thiolate) particles can be used to formulate imaging forming compositions that are useful in aqueous thermographic or photothermographic imaging elements.

Abstract: Antistatic compositions include a fluorochemical that is a reaction product of Rf—CH2CH2—SO3H with an amine wherein Rf comprises 4 or more fully fluorinated carbon atoms. These antistatic compositions can be formulated in organic solvent-based conductive coating compositions, with or without hydrophobic binders, that can be used to form conductive layers in thermally developable materials including thermographic and photothermographic materials.

Abstract: A photothermographic imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a binder, and a reducing agent for silver ions,

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material includes at least a photosensitive silver halide particle, a nonphotonsensitive organic silver salt, a developing accelerator, a reducing agent and a binder on a support, wherein the photosensitive silver halide includes silver iodide at 5 mol % to 100 mol % and the average particle size of the photosensitive silver halide is 5 nm to 80 nm. A heat developing method for the heat-developable photosensitive material is also disclosed.

Abstract: A heat developable image recording material including a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions, a binder and non-photosensitive organic acid silver salt particles on one side of the surface of a substrate. A content of silver behenate in the non-photosensitive organic acid silver salt particles is 90 mol % to 100 mol %, and at least one kind of mercapto compound is contained in a surface of the substrate at the same side as a layer having the photosensitive silver halide. The heat developable image recording material includes a compound represented by following the general formula (1) wherein, R21, R22 and R23 each independently represent a substituted or non-substituted alkyl group. When R21, R22 or R23 have a substituent, the substituent is a halogen atom etc. The non-photosensitive organic particles are prepared from organic acids including at least behenic acid and erucic acid, and a content of the erucic acid is 0.000001 mol % to 0.4 mol %.

Abstract: The thermally developable photosensitive material of the present invention has a support and including on at least one surface of the support a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for thermal development, a binder and a compound represented by the following general formula (1): 1

Abstract: A method for wrapping a heat-developable photosensitive material, which comprises bending a wrapping material so that the wrapping material can bring into direct contact with at least a part of a heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and a non-photosensitive organic silver salt having a silver behenate content of not lower than 53 mol % provided on one side of a support, wherein the wrapping material is a paper.

Abstract: A method for producing a silver salt of an organic acid, which comprises steps of reacting (1) a solution containing silver ions in water or in a mixture of an organic solvent and water, with (2) a solution or suspension containing an alkali metal salt of an organic acid in water, in a mixture of an organic solvent and water, or in an organic solvent to prepare a silver salt of an organic acid, and removing a byproduct salt by a desalting operation, wherein a dispersing agent having a molecular weight of 3000 or less is added and dispersed during a time period of from before the reaction to before the desalting operation. There is provided a method for producing a silver salt of an organic acid, which can provides low fog, high sensitivity and high concentration of blackening when it is used for photothermographic materials, and is suitable for the production of photothermographic materials having low haze and less image degradation after storage.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material having a substrate, a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer and a photosensitive layer coated thereon and having a silver halide, dye-providing compound and a binder, the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer containing a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition, which is colored at a temperature lower than its discoloration initiation temperature (T) of 60 to 200° C.; which is substantially discolored at a temperature equal to or higher than T; and which does not recover its color once discolored, even when its temperature is lowered to a temperature lower than T again, and the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition containing a polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 200° C.

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic imaging material is disclosed, comprising a light-sensitive aliphatic acid silver salt, a light-sensitive emulsion containing light-sensitive halide grains, a reducing agent for silver ions, a binder and a cross-linking agent, wherein the cross-linking agent is an aromatic polyisocyanate compound and the photothermographic material further comprises a compound selected from compounds represented by the following formulas.

Abstract: A photothermographic light-sensitive material for making a printing plate comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive layer containing light-sensitive silver halide grains, organic silver salt grains, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein the organic silver salt grain comprises a organic silver salt having 10 or more of carbon atoms and the photothermographic light-sensitive material has an outermost layer at a light-sensitive layer side of the support having a coefficient of water absorption of not less than 0.7%.

Abstract: Photothermographic imaging materials having increased photospeed are provided by certain selenium chemical sensitizers that are added during the formulation of a photothermographic emulsion. These selenium chemical sensitizers can be used alone or in combination with other sulfur, tellurium, or gold chemical sensitizers as well as with oxidatively decomposed sulfur-containing compounds.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material containing a silver salt of an organic acid, a silver halide and a reducing agent on a transparent support, which has, in silver iodide content distribution of total silver halide grains contained in the photothermographic material plotted with silver iodide content in abscissa and silver content in silver halide grains in ordinate, at least one maximum value in a silver iodide content range of less than 10 mol % and at least one maximum value in a silver iodide content range of 10 mol % or more. The photothermographic material shows low fog, little increase of fog and little sensitivity fluctuation during storage before light exposure.

Abstract: A producing method of a fatty acid silver salt is described, which comprises adding (1) a solution of silver ions comprising water or a mixed solution of an organic solvent and water containing therein silver ions, and (2) a solution of a fatty acid alkali metal salt which is a solution or a suspension comprising water, an organic solvent, or a mixed solution of water and an organic solvent, containing therein an alkali metal salt of a fatty acid to a closed mixing means to react the solution (1) and the solution (2), wherein from 50 to 99.5 mol % of the entire fatty acid alkali metal salt solution is added to the closed mixing means under such a condition that the concentration of the fatty acid alkali metal salt is higher than the silver ion concentration, and from 0.5 to 30 mol % of the entire fatty acid alkali metal salt solution is added to the closed mixing means or to the downstream of the closed mixing means after the silver ion solution has been added to the closed mixing means.