Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Josephy T. Guy
  • Patent number: 6607876
    Abstract: A radiographic silver halide film material and a radiographic screen/film combination has been disclosed, said material having in at least one light-sensitive layer thereof an emulsion comprising {111} tabular silver halide grains rich in silver bromide, spectrally sensitive to irradiation in the wavelength range between 540 and 555 nm by the presence of a combination of at least one J-aggregating spectrally sensitizing cyanine dye according to the formula (I) and of at least one additional cyanine dye providing a shift of maximum absorption wavelength of said combination of less than 10 nm versus in the absence thereof, wherein said additional cyanine dye is at least one monomethine cyanine dye according to the formula (II), essentially having a solubilizing group or a latent solubilizing group, said dyes having been given in the description and in the claims of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Kathy Elst, Paul Callant, Ilse Mans