Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent for silver ions, and a binder, and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein: 1) a mean grain size of the photosensitive silver halide is from 10 nm to 40 nm in terms of equivalent circular diameter, and a number of coated grains thereof is from 550 grains/?m2 to 10000 grains/?m2; and 2) the photothermographic material includes a fluorocarbon compound represented by the following formula (FC-1), (FC-2), or (FC-3). A photothermographic material and an image forming method which exhibit improved coated surface state and high quality are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material having, on a support, an image forming layer including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein a mean particle size of the non-photosensitive organic silver salt is 0.