Abstract: The biochemical analysis unit has a base plate and absorptive regions. The absorptive regions are surrounded by the base plate formed of materials which shield a radioactive ray and a light. In the absorptive regions are applied and absorbed specific binding substances to be bound with substances derived from a living organism that are labeled with labeling substances for generating the radioactive ray or the light. The base plate prevents the specific binding substances from penetrating in the other absorptive regions. When an analysis of data of the radioactive ray and the light is carried out, an image of the radioactive ray and the light is generated without noises.

Abstract: In a radiation image storage panel having an energy storable phosphor layer formed by a gas phase-accumulation method, the energy storable phosphor layer gives off an emission having a luminescence width in terms of d in the range of 150 to 395 ?m when it is exposed to radiation and then excited with a stimulating light of 50 ?m half-width.

Abstract: The biochemical analysis unit has a base plate and absorptive regions. The absorptive regions are surrounded by the base plate formed of materials which shield a radioactive ray and a light. In the absorptive regions are applied and absorbed specific binding substances to be bound with substances derived from a living organism that are labeled with labeling substances for generating the radioactive ray or the light. The base plate prevents the specific binding substances from penetrating in the other absorptive regions. When an analysis of data of the radioactive ray and the light is carried out, an image of the radioactive ray and the light is generated without noises.

Abstract: The stimulable phosphor panel includes a support having a substrate or the substrate and a sealing member, a stimulable phosphor layer formed on the substrate being the support through gas phase deposition, a moisture-proof protective layer for sealing the stimulable phosphor layer and a sealing adhesive layer for bonding an outer periphery of the moisture-proof protective layer to the support. The sealing adhesive layer has a moisture permeability of 1,000 g/m2·day or less as an adhesive after curing, a width of 2 mm to 10 mm, and a thickness of 0.5 ?m to 20 ?m. The producing method forms the stimulable phosphor layer on the support through gas phase deposition, forms the adhesive layer and bonds the moisture-proof protective layer to the support through the adhesive layer. The stimulable phosphor panel is capable of preventing deterioration of its characteristics due to moisture absorption over a long period of time.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a disinfection system for a radiation image conversion panel, a radiation image conversion film, and/or a light shielding bag that can be used to wrap such a radiation image conversion film therein including a disinfection unit which applies at least a disinfection treatment to a radiation image conversion panel, and an image reading apparatus including the disinfection system. In the disinfection system for a radiation image conversion panel, preferably the disinfection treatment by the disinfection unit is at least one of a heat treatment, an ultraviolet irradiation treatment, a chemical application treatment or a gas treatment.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel has a phosphor layer formed by a gas phase-accumulation method, in which the phosphor layer is composed of a lower sub-layer of a spherical crystal structure and an upper sub-layer of a columnar crystal structure.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel composed of a substrate and a layer of stimulable phosphor is prepared in an evaporation chamber kept at a pressure of 0.1 to 10 Pa by the steps of heating a source of the stimulable phosphor in the chamber so that the source is evaporated to give a gaseous product and depositing the gaseous product on the substrate which is arranged above the source to form the layer of stimulable phosphor on the substrate, in which the evaporation chamber has a diffusion preventing wall member surrounding a space between the source and the substrate, a top of which is positioned in the vicinity of a periphery of the substrate and a bottom of which is positioned in the vicinity of the source; and the diffusion preventing wall member is maintained at a temperature lower than a temperature of the source and higher than a temperature of the substrate.

Abstract: The stimulable phosphor panel includes a support having a substrate or the substrate and a sealing member, a stimulable phosphor layer formed on the substrate being the support through gas phase deposition, a moisture-proof protective layer for sealing the stimulable phosphor layer and a sealing adhesive layer for bonding an outer periphery of the moisture-proof protective layer to the support. The sealing adhesive layer has a moisture permeability of 1,000 g/m2·day or less as an adhesive after curing, a width of 2 mm to 10 mm, and a thickness of 0.5 ?m to 20 ?m. The producing method forms the stimulable phosphor layer on the support through gas phase deposition, forms the adhesive layer and bonds the moisture-proof protective layer to the support through the adhesive layer. The stimulable phosphor panel is capable of preventing deterioration of its characteristics due to moisture absorption over a long period of time.

Abstract: A method employing a porous material sheet which has at predetermined positions plural dots each being composed of a group of probe molecules and a stimulable phosphor sheet having a phosphor layer which contains a stimulable phosphor in an amount of 10 to 140 g/m2 is favorably utilized to detect by autoradiography radioactively labeled substances originating from living body or its analogues which are able to be fixed to the probe molecules by biochemically specific binding reaction.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel comprises a stimulable phosphor layer capable of emitting light when being exposed to stimulating rays, which cause the stimulable phosphor layer to emit the light in proportion to an amount of energy stored on the stimulable phosphor layer during exposure of the stimulable phosphor layer to radiation. The stimulable phosphor layer is adapted for radiating out the emitted light with an intensity distribution that is compressed in a direction, which is normal to a surface of the stimulable phosphor layer, and into an oblate distribution, which is flatter than a cos ? distribution.

Abstract: The radiographic image conversion panel for mammography includes a stimulable phosphor layer formed on a rectangular substrate having first and second pairs of two parallel sides, and sealed with a moisture-proof protective film. The phosphor layer is positioned on the substrate such that a distance from at least one side of the first pair to an adjacent end of the phosphor layer is shorter than a critical bonding length being a shortest bonding length long enough to provide a predetermined level of moisture-proof effect and distances from two sides of the second pair to adjacent ends of the phosphor layer are not shorter than the critical length. A seal bonding layer is formed in areas of the second distance, and on a side surface having the at least one side or on the side surface and a rear surface of the substrate. The phosphor layer may be formed in a recess formed in the substrate.

Abstract: The stimulable phosphor panel includes a support having a substrate or the substrate and a sealing member, a stimulable phosphor layer formed on the substrate being the support through gas phase deposition, a moisture-proof protective layer for sealing the stimulable phosphor layer and a sealing adhesive layer for bonding an outer periphery of the moisture-proof protective layer to the support. The sealing adhesive layer has a moisture permeability of 1,000 g/m2·day or less as an adhesive after curing, a width of 2 mm to 10 mm, and a thickness of 0.5 ?m to 20 ?m. The producing method forms the stimulable phosphor layer on the support through gas phase deposition, forms the adhesive layer and bonds the moisture-proof protective layer to the support through the adhesive layer. The stimulable phosphor panel is capable of preventing deterioration of its characteristics due to moisture absorption over a long period of time.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel is composed of a support and a phosphor layer formed on one surface of the support by gas phase-accumulation, in which the support shows a contact angle of 50° or less with respect to water on the surface on which the phosphor layer is formed.

Abstract: A composite material sheet favorably utilizable for analysis of substances originating from living body or its analogues has partitions two-dimensionally extending on a sheet plane to form on the sheet plane plural fine sections surrounded by the partitions and porous material portions each of which is placed in the fine section, in which the partitions are made of material having a mean density of 0.6 g/cm3 or higher and the porous material portions have a mean density of 1.0 g/cm3 or lower, under the condition that the mean density of material of the partitions is higher than the mean density of the material of the porous material portions.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer which is composed of a phosphor having a matrix component and an activator component is prepared by the steps of forming on a substrate a lower prismatic crystalline layer composed of the matrix component by vapor deposition; and forming on the lower prismatic crystalline layer an upper prismatic crystalline layer composed of the matrix component and the activator component by vapor deposition.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel has a phosphor layer formed by a gas phase-accumulation method, in which the phosphor layer is composed of a lower sub-layer of a spherical crystal structure and an upper sub-layer of a columnar crystal structure.

Abstract: In a radiation image storage panel having an energy storable phosphor layer formed by a gas phase-accumulation method, the energy storable phosphor layer gives off an emission having a luminescence width in terms of d in the range of 150 to 395 ?m when it is exposed to radiation and then excited with a stimulating light of 50 ?m half-width.

Abstract: A process for detecting a complementary DNA fragment is performed utilizing a DNA micro-array, a radiation image storage panel containing a stimulable phosphor, and a spacer sheet having plural openings.

Abstract: A method for reading a radiation image from a stimulable phosphor sheet composed of a substrate and a stimulable phosphor layer containing a latent radiation image by means of a radiation image-reading means having stimulating light-applying unit and a stimulated emission-collecting unit having a lens and a stimulated emission-receiving plane, which is performed by the steps of applying a stimulating light onto the phosphor layer under the condition that the phosphor sheet moves along its sheet plane in relation to the stimulated emission-collecting unit; collecting a stimulated emission emitting from the area onto which the stimulating light is applied on the emission-receiving plane through the lens; and photoelectrically converting the collected emission into electric signals in the stimulated emission-collecting unit, is improved by moving the stimulable phosphor sheet in relation to the emission-collecting unit under the condition that the stimulating light-applied area of the stimulable phosphor layer i

Abstract: In a radiation image storage panel composed of a support sheet and a phosphor layer formed on a surface of the support sheet by vapor-accumulating method, the phosphor layer is composed of prismatic crystals of phosphor aligned in the same direction, and each of the crystals has a convex surface at one end. The radiation image storage panel is favorably employed in combination with a line sensor in a radiation image recording and reproducing method.