Abstract: A radiation image storage panel composed of a phosphor film which has cracks extending in its depth direction and is formed by vapor-accumulating method shows particularly good image-forming characteristics having a good balance between its sensitivity and its image sharpness when the phosphor film has a thickness of 300 to 700 &mgr;m and has a relative density of 85 to 97%.

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 &thgr; distribution.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel comprises a substrate and a stimulable phosphor layer overlaid on the substrate. The substrate has a plurality of protruding regions over an entire surface of the substrate. The stimulable phosphor layer comprises a plurality of pillar-shaped structures of a stimulable phosphor, which pillar-shaped structures extend in a layer thickness direction of the stimulable phosphor layer, each of the pillar-shaped structures of the stimulable phosphor having been formed with one of the protruding regions of the substrate as a starting point of the pillar-shaped structure and with a vapor phase deposition technique. A surface of the stimulable phosphor layer is formed with only the pillar-shaped structures of the stimulable phosphor, which pillar-shaped structures extend respectively from the protruding regions of the substrate.

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: 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: A stimulable phosphor sheet is formed with a plurality of stimulable phosphor layer regions formed by pressing a stimulable phosphor membrane containing stimulable phosphor and a binder into a plurality of through-holes formed in a plate-like member to form the plurality of stimulable phosphor layer regions at positions corresponding to those of the plurality of through-holes of the plate-like member.

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 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 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 as of a radiation image-reading means having a 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 is

Abstract: A biochemical analysis unit includes a plurality of absorptive regions formed of absorptive material and spaced apart from each other and a plurality of isolating regions formed of a material capable of attenuating radiation energy and/or light energy for isolating the plurality of absorptive regions, the plurality of isolating regions being formed so that surfaces thereof lie outward of surfaces of the individual absorptive regions. According to the thus constituted biochemical analysis unit, it is possible to effectively prevent electron beams released from a radioactive labeling substance or chemiluminescent emission released from the plurality of absorptive regions from being scattered and to produce biochemical analysis data free from noise by scanning a stimulable phosphor layer exposed to electron beams or chemiluminescent emission released from the plurality of absorptive regions with a stimulating ray and photoelectrically detecting stimulated emission released from the stimulable phosphor layer.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel composed of a phosphor film which has cracks extending in its depth direction and is formed by vapor-accumulating method shows particularly good image-forming characteristics having a good balance between its sensitivity and its image sharpness when the phosphor film has a thickness of 300 to 700 &mgr;m and has a relative density of 85 to 97%.

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.

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 radiation image storage panel having a sintered or deposited stimulable phosphor layer is improved by impregnating the sintered or deposited phosphor layer with a thermosetting resin, an ultraviolet-curing resin or an electron beam-curing resin, and curing the impregnated resin.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer comprising a stimulable phosphor and a binder, wherein the binder comprises a thermoplastic elastomer having a softening or melting point of 30.degree. to 150.degree. C . and a modulus of elasticity of not more than 0.3 kgf/mm.sup.2 is resistant to production of cracks in its repeated use in a radiation image recording and reproducing method.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel having a phosphor layer comprising a stimulable phosphor and a binder, wherein the binder comprises a thermoplastic elastomer having a softening or melting point of 30.degree. to 150.degree. C. and a modulus of elasticity of not more than 0.3 kgf/mm.sup.2 is resistant to production of cracks in its repeated use in a radiation image recording and reproducing method.

Abstract: A radiation image storage panel comprises a stimulable phosphor layer, a cushioning layer and a coated protective layer, wherein the cushioning layer shows an elongation at rupture more than that of the protective layer.

Abstract: A stimulable phosphor sheet comprises a stimulable phosphor layer, and a colored layer, which is located on one side of the stimulable phosphor layer and contains a coloring agent. The coloring agent is capable of selectively absorbing stimulating rays, The stimulable phosphor sheet is scanned with the stimulating rays from the side opposite to the colored layer. The light, which is emitted by the two surfaces of the stimulable phosphor sheet during its scanning with the stimulating rays, is photoelectrically detected from the two surfaces of the stimulable phosphor sheet, and an image signal representing the radiation image is thereby obtained. The sharpness of an image reproduced from the image signal is thereby efficiently kept high. A second embodiment provides an optical layer on a stimulable phosphor sheet, wherein the optical layer transmits only light which is incident from a direction substantially normal to the surface of the stimulable phosphor sheet.

Abstract: An improvement of a radiographic intensifying screen comprises a support, a phosphor layer and a protective layer in order resides in the protective layer which is formed on the phosphor layer by coating a fluoro-resin on the phosphor layer to give a coated layer having a thickness of less than 5 .mu.m.

Abstract: A deflecting apparatus includes a saturable reactor, and this saturable reactor is constituted by a first saturation control coil and a second saturation control coil for generating a magnetic field having an opposite polarity to that of the first saturation control coil. The first saturation control coil is connected to a resistor to form a first deflection current system, and the second saturation control coil is connected in series with a pair of diodes that are connected to have opposite polarities, thereby forming a second deflection current system connected in parallel with the first deflection current system. The first and second saturation control coils are magnetically coupled to first and second impedance control coils respectively connected to horizontal deflection coils.