EP0690342A1 - Verbundmaterial aus einem lichtempfindlichen photographischen Silberhalogenid-Material und einem radiographischen Verstärkerschirm - Google Patents

Verbundmaterial aus einem lichtempfindlichen photographischen Silberhalogenid-Material und einem radiographischen Verstärkerschirm Download PDF

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EP0690342A1
EP0690342A1 EP95304394A EP95304394A EP0690342A1 EP 0690342 A1 EP0690342 A1 EP 0690342A1 EP 95304394 A EP95304394 A EP 95304394A EP 95304394 A EP95304394 A EP 95304394A EP 0690342 A1 EP0690342 A1 EP 0690342A1
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Kazuhiro C/O Konica Corp. Iwasaki
Kazuyoshi C/O Konica Corp. Goan
Haruhiko C/O Konica Corp. Sakuma
Takuji C/O Konica Corp. Hasegawa
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  • the present invention relates to a new composite of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and a radiographic intensifying screen, and more specifically, relates to a new composite of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and a radiographic intensifying screen wherein sensitivity is high, an X-ray dose amount can be reduced and an X-ray image having high sharpness and excellent graininess can be obtained.
  • an image of patient tissue is formed by recording an X-ray transmission pattern on a photographic light-sensitive material (a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material) containing at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated and formed on a transparent support.
  • a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material may be singly used for recording of the X-ray transmission pattern.
  • a radiographic intensifying screen is combined with a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material for radiography.
  • the radiographic intensifying screen is provided with a fluorescent substance layer on the surface of a support.
  • the fluorescent substance layer absorbs an X-ray radiation and converts it to visible light giving high sensitivity to the light-sensitive material. Therefore, its use can noticeably improve sensitivity of an X-ray photographing system.
  • a method for further improving the sensitivity of the X-ray photographing system is developed a method that radiographes while a light-sensitive material having photographic emulsion layers on both sides, namely, a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material provided with a silver halide photographic light-sensitive layer in front of and at rear of a support is sandwiched between radiographic intensifying screens (it may be simply called an intensifying screen).
  • radiographic intensifying screens it may be simply called an intensifying screen.
  • the X-ray photographing method using 2 sheets of intensifying screens, having an appropriate thickness of fluorescent substance layer has the advantage to increase the amount of X-ray absorption as a whole and to effectively emit visible light converted from the intensifying screen.
  • radioactive intensifying screens having various sensitivities, which range from those having a relatively thin fluorescent substance layer having high sharpness and low light-emittance to those having a relatively thick fluorescent substance layer having poor sharpness but showing high light-emittance, are commercially available.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a composite of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and a radiographic intensifying screen wherein sensitivity is high, the X-ray dosage amount can be reduced and an X-ray image of high sharpness and excellent graininess can be obtained.
  • the above-mentioned object of the present invention can be attained by a composite for forming an image essentially consisting of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and a silver halide photographic light-sensitive layer provided on each side of the support and a radiographic intensifying screen positioned on each side of the material, wherein at least one of the screens has an absorption of 45% or more of a 80KVp X-ray energy, a contrast transfer function (CTF) of 0.78 or more at a space frequency of 1 line/mm and a contrast transfer function (CTF) of 0.35 or more at a space frequency of 3 line/mm, crossover is 5 to 15%, and the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material has such a sensitivity that, when the material is exposed to a monochromatic light having the same wavelength as a main emission peak wavelength of the screens and having a half band width of 15 ⁇ 5 nm, developed with the exposed material at 35°C for 25 seconds with the following developer, and the developed light-sensitive layer on
  • the above-mentioned silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is composed of a support and provided thereon with a hydrophilic colloidal layer located between a support and at least either of the light-sensitive layers. It is preferred that a dye layer decolored by the above-mentioned photographic processing is further provided. When the aforesaid dye layer contains an anion dye, effects become prominent.
  • the radiographic intensifying screen is, as a basic structure, composed of a support and a fluorescent substance layer provided on one side of the support.
  • the fluorescent substance layer is a layer wherein a fluorescent substance is dispersed in a binding agent (binder).
  • a transparent layer is ordinarily provided so that it protects the fluorescent substance layer from chemical degeneration and physical shock.
  • the preferable as a fluorescent substance used for the radiographic intensifying screen is one represented by the following Formula: M (w-n) M' n O W X wherein M represents at least one of metallic yttrium, lanthan, gadolinium or lutetium; M' represents at least one of rare earth elements, preferably cerium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, holmium, neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, terbium, thulium or ytterbium; X represents an intermediate chalcogen (S, Se or Te) or a halogen atom; n is 0 when w is 1 or n is 0 or 1 when w is 2; and w is 1 when X represents a halogen atom or w is 2 when X represents a chalcogen.
  • M represents at least one of metallic yttrium, lanthan, gadolinium or lutetium
  • M' represents at
  • Terbium-activated rare earth oxysulfide fluorescent substances [Y2O2S:Tb, Gd2O2S:Tb, La2O2S:Tb, (Y, Gd)2O2S:Tb, (Y, Gd)2O2S:Tb, Tm etc.], terbium-activated rare earth oxyhalide fluorescent substances (LaOBr:Tb, LaOBr:Tb, Tm, LaOCl: Tb, Tm, GdOBr:Tb, GdOCl, etc.) and thulium-activated rare earth oxyhalide fluorescent substances (LaOBr:Tm, LaOCl:Tm, etc.).
  • terbium-activated gadolinium oxysulfide type fluorescent substance can be cited.
  • U.S.P. No. 3,725,704 describes terbium-activated gadolinium oxysulfide type fluorescent substances in detail.
  • the fluorescent substance layer is ordinarily coated on a support utilizing a coating method under an ordinary pressure as described below. Namely, particle fluorescent substance and a binder are mixed and dispersed in a solvent for preparing a coating solution.
  • This coating solution is directly coated on a support of a radiographic intensifying screen under an ordinary pressure by the use of a coating means such as a doctor blade, roller coater and a knife coater. Following this, by removing the solvent from the coated layer, the fluorescent substance layer is coated on the support. Otherwise, the coating solution is coated on a tentative support such as a glass plate under an ordinary pressure. Next, the solvent is removed from the coated layer so that a resin thin layer containing a fluorescent substance is formed. By removing this from the tentative support and jointing on a support of a radiographic intensifying screen, the fluorescent substance layer is coated onto the support.
  • the radiographic intensifying screen used in the present invention is produced by the use of a thermoplastic elastomer as a binder as described hereafter and by increasing the filling ratio (in other words, reducing the ratio of void in the fluorescent substance layer) by means of a compression processing.
  • Intensification of a radiographic intensifying screen is basically dependent on the total emission amount of a fluorescent substance contained in a panel.
  • This total emission amount varies depending upon not only emission illuminance of the fluorescent substance itself but also the content of the fluorescent substance in the fluorescent substance layer. That the content of fluorescent substance is large also means that the absorption of a radiation such as an X-ray is also large. Therefore, higher sensitivity can be obtained and an image quality (especially, graininess) is improved.
  • the content of the fluorescent substance in the fluorescent substance layer is constant, the more the fluorescent substance particles are filled densely, the more the layer thickness can be reduced. Therefore, spreading of emitted light due to scattering can be reduced so that relatively high sharpness can be obtained.
  • radiographic intensifying screen it is preferable to produce it by a production method including
  • the fluorescent substance sheet which is a fluorescent substance layer of a radiographic intensifying screen can be produced by coating a coating solution, wherein a fluorescent substance is dispersed uniformly in a binder solution, on a tentative support for forming the fluorescent substance sheet, drying and peeling it off from the tentative support. Namely, first of all, a binder and fluorescent substance particles are added to an appropriate organic solvent and then, stirred to prepare a coating solution wherein the fluorescent substance is dispersed uniformly in the binder solution.
  • thermoplastic elastomer whose softening temperature or a melting point is 30 to 150°C is used singly or in combinstion with other binder polymers.
  • the thermoplastic elastomer has elasticity at room temperature and has fluidity when heated. Therefore, it can prevent damage of the fluorescent substance due to pressure in compression.
  • thermo-plastic elastomer polystyrene, polyolefin, polyurethane, polyester, polyamide, polybutadiene, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, poly vinyl chloride, natural rubbers, fluorine-containing rubbers, polyisoprene, chlorinated polyethylene, styrene-butadiene rubbers and silicone rubbers are cited.
  • the component ratio of thermoplastic elastomer in the binder is allowed to be 10 wt% or more and 100 wt% or less. However, it is desirable that the binder is composed of the thermo-plastic elastomer as much as possible, especially is composed of a thermo-plastic elastomer of 100 wt%.
  • lower alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, n-propanol and n-butanol; chlorine-containing hydrocarbons such as methylenechloride and ethylenechloride; ketones such as acetone, methylethylketone and methylisobutylketone; esters of lower fatty acids and lower alcohols such as methyl acetate, ethyl acetate and butyl acetate; ethers such as dioxane, ethyleneglycolmonoethylether and ethyleneglycoholmonomethylether and their mixtures can be cited.
  • the mixture ratio between the binder and the fluorescent substance in the coating solution varies depending upon the characteristic of the radiographic intensifying screen and the kind of fluorescent substance.
  • the mixture ratio of the binder and the fluorescent substance is from 1:1 to 1:100 (by weight), and preferbly from 1:8 to 1:40 (by weight).
  • a dispersant for improving dispersing property of a fluorescent substance in aforesaid coating solution and a plasticizer for improving binding force between a binder and a fluorescent substance in the fluorescent substance layer after being formed may be mixed.
  • a dispersant used for the above-mentioned purpose include phthalic acid, stearic acid, caprolic acid and lipophilic surfactants may be cited.
  • a plasticizer examples include phosphates such as triphenyl phosphate, tricresyl phosphate and diphenyl phosphate; phthalates such as diethyl phthalate and dimethoxyethyl phthalate; ester glycols such as ethylphthalylethyl glycolate and butylphthalylbutyl glycolate; and polyesters of polyethylene glycols and aliphatic dibasic acids such as polyester of triethylene glycol and adipic acid and polyester between diethylene glycol and succinic acid are cited.
  • the coating layer is formed by coating the coating solution containing the fluorescent substance and the binder prepared in the above-mentioned manner on the tentative support for forming a sheet uniformly.
  • This coating operation can be conducted by the use of a conventional means such as a doctor blade method, a roll coater method and a knife coater method.
  • a material of the tentative support can be selected from glass, metal plate or conventional materials as a support for an intensifying screen of X-ray.
  • materials include plastic films such as cellulose acetate, polyester, polyethylene terephthalate, polyamide, polyimide, triacetate and polycarbonate, metallic sheets such as aluminium foil and aluminium alloy foil, an ordinary paper, baryta paper, resin-coated paper, pigment paper containing a pigment such as titanium dioxide, paper wherein polyvinyl alcohol is subjected to sizing, caramic plates or sheets such as alumina, zirconia, magnesia and titania.
  • a coating solution for forming the fluorescent substance layer is coated on the tentative support and dried.
  • the coating layer is peeled off from the tentative support so that the fluorescent substance sheet which will be a fluorescent substance layer of a radiographic intensifying screen is formed. Therefore, it is desirable that a mold-releasing agent is coated on the surface of the tentative support and that the fluorescent substance sheet formed is easily peeled off from the tentative support.
  • step b) a support for a fluorescent substance sheet prepared in the above-mentioned manner is prepared.
  • This support can be selected arbitrarily from the same materials as those used for a tentative support used in forming the fluorescent substance sheet.
  • a conventional radiographic intensifying screen in order to strengthen binding between a support and a fluorescent substance layer and in order to improve sensitivity or image quality (sharpness and graininess) as the radiographic intensifying screen, it is known to coat a polymer substance such as gelatin as an adhesive layer on the surface of a support on the side of the fluorecent substance layer or to provide thereon a light-reflection layer comprising a light-reflective substance such as titanium dioxide or a light-absorption layer comprising a light-absorptive substance such as carbon black.
  • the support used in the present invention may be provided with each of the above-mentioned layer. The constitution may be arbitrarily selected depending upon the purpose and application of the desired radiographic intensifying screen.
  • the fluorescent substance sheet obtained through step a) is loaded on a support. Next, the fluorescent substance sheet is stuck on the support while compressing it at a softening temperature or a melting point or higher of the binder.
  • a compressor used for compressing processing of the present invention include conventional ones such as a calender roll and a hot press.
  • the fluorescent substance sheet obtained through step a) is loaded on the support, and then, the sheet is passed through rollers heated to the softening temperature or the melting point of the binder or higher at a certain speed.
  • a compressor used for the present invention is not limited thereto. Any compressing means can be used, provided that it can compress the sheet while heating it.
  • the compression pressure is preferably 50 kg/cm or more.
  • a transparent protective layer is provided for protecting the fluorescent substance layer physically and chemically on the surface of the fluorescent substance layer opposite to that being in contact with the support, as described before.
  • a protective layer is preferably provided in the radiographic intensifying screen of the present invention.
  • Layer thickness of the protective layer is ordinarily in a range from about 0.1 to 20 ⁇ m.
  • the transparent protective layer can be formed by a method that coats a solution prepared by dissolving a transparent polymer such as cellulose derivatives including cellulose acetate and nitro cellulose; and a synthetic polymer including polymethyl methacrylate, polyvinyl butylal, polyvinyl formal, polycarbonate, polyvinyl acetate, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer on the surface of the fluorescent substance layer.
  • a transparent polymer such as cellulose derivatives including cellulose acetate and nitro cellulose
  • synthetic polymer including polymethyl methacrylate, polyvinyl butylal, polyvinyl formal, polycarbonate, polyvinyl acetate, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer on the surface of the fluorescent substance layer.
  • the transparent protective layer can also be formed by a method that forms a sheet for forming a protective layer such as a plastic sheet composed of polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyethylene, polyvinylidene chloride or polyamide; and a protective layer forming sheet such as a transparent glass plate is formed separately and they are stuck on the surface of the fluorescent substance layer by the use of an appropriate adhesive agent.
  • a protective layer such as a plastic sheet composed of polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyethylene, polyvinylidene chloride or polyamide
  • a layer formed by a coating layer containing an organic solvent soluble fluorescent resin is preferable.
  • a fluorescent resin a polymer of a fluorine-containing olefin (fluoro olefin) or a copolymer of a fluorine-containing olefin is cited.
  • a layer formed by a fluorine resin coating layer may be cross-linked.
  • an organic solvent soluble fluorescent resin When used as a material for forming a protective layer, it can be formed easily by coating a solution prepared by dissolving this resin in a suitable solvent and drying it.
  • the protective layer is formed by coating the protective layer forming material coating solution containing the organic solvent soluble fluorine resin on the surface of fluorescent layer uniformly by the use of the doctor blade and by drying it. This formation of a protective layer may be conducted concurrently with the formation of the fluorescent substance layer by the use of multilayer coating.
  • the fluorine resin is a homopolymer or copolymer of a fluorine containing olefin (fluoroolefin). Its examples include polytetrafluoroethylene, polychlorotrifluoroethylene, polyvinyl fluoride, polyvinylidene fluoride, tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer and fluoroolefin-vinyl ether copolymer. Though fluorine resins are insoluble in an organic solvent, copolymers of fluoroolefins as a copolymer component are soluble in an organic solvent depending upon other constituting units (other than fluoroolefin) of the copolymers.
  • the protective layer can be formed easily by coating a solution wherein the aforesaid resin is dissolved in a suitable solvent for preparing on the fluorescent substance layer to be dried.
  • a suitable solvent for preparing on the fluorescent substance layer for preparing on the fluorescent substance layer to be dried.
  • the above-mentioned copolymers include fluoroolefin-vinylether copolymer.
  • polytetrafluoroethylene and its denatured product are soluble in a suitable fluorine-containing organic solvent such as a perfluoro solvent. Therefore, they can form a protective layer in the same manner as in the copolymer containing the above-mentioned fluoroolefin as a copolymer component.
  • resins other than the fluorine resin may be incorporated.
  • a cross-linking agent, a hardener and an anti-yellowing agent may be incorporated.
  • the content of the fluorine resin in the protective layer is suitably 30 wt% or more, preferably 50 wt% or more and more preferably 70 wt% or more.
  • resin incorporated in the protective layer other than the fluorine resin include a polyurethane resin, a polyacrylic resin, a cellulose derivative, polymethylmethacrylate, a polyester resin and an epoxy resin.
  • the protective layer for the radiographic intensifying screen used in the present invention may be formed by either of an oligomer containing a polysiloxane skeleton or an oligomer containing a perfluoroalkyl group or by both thereof.
  • the oligomer containing the polysiloxane skeleton has, for example, a dimethyl polysiloxane skeleton. It is preferable to have at least one functional group (for example, a hydroxyl group).
  • the molecular weight (weight average) is preferably in a range from 500 to 100000, more preferably 1000 to 100000, especially more preferably 3000 to 10000.
  • the oligomer containing the perfluoroalkyl group preferably contains at least one functional group (for example, a hydroxyl group: -OH) in a molucule.
  • Its molecular weight (weight average) is 500 to 100000, more preferably 1000 to 100000 and especially preferably 10000 to 100000.
  • the oligomer is contained in the protective layer preferably in an amount of 0.01 to 10 wt% and especially 0.1 to 2 wt%.
  • perfluoro olefin resin powder or silicone resin powder may be added.
  • the perfluoro olefin resin powder or the silicone resin powder those having an average particle size of preferably 0.1 to 10 ⁇ m, and more preferably 0.3 to 5 ⁇ m.
  • the above-mentioned perfluoro olefin resin powder or the silicone resin powder is added to the protective layer preferably in an amount of 0.5 to 30 wt% and more preferably 2 to 20 wt% and especially preferably 5 to 15 wt%.
  • the radiographic intensifying screen used in the present invention has high sensitivity, wherein the contrast transfer function (CTF) is 0.78 or more in terms of one spatial frequency/mm and 0.35 or more in terms of three spatial frequency/mm.
  • CTF contrast transfer function
  • the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of the invention comprises a support and a silver halide photographic light-sensitive layer provided on each side of the support, wherein at least one of the light-sensitive layers has such a sensitivity that, when the material is exposed to a monochromatic light having the same wavelength as a main emission peak wavelength of the above described screen and having a half band width of 15 ⁇ 5 nm, developed with the exposed material at 35°C for 25 seconds with the above described developer, and the developed light-sensitive layer on the side of the support opposite the exposed side is removed and a density of the removed layer is measured, an exposure necessary to give a density of the minimum density + 0.5 is 0.0060 to 0.0110 lux ⁇ second, and the light-sensitive layer on the side of the support opposite a radiographic intensifying screen positioned in contact with the light sensitive material has an cross-over of 5 to 15% of an emission light of the radiographic intensifying screen.
  • the wavelength of an exposure light-source used must be the same or substantially the same as that of the main emission peak of a radiographic intensifying screen used in combination.
  • the wavelength of the main emission peak is 545 nm, so that the light-source used when the sensitivity of the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is measured should have a main emission wavelength of 545 nm.
  • a method that uses a filter system which combines inteference filters can be utilized.
  • a monochromatic light having a necessary amount of exposure and a half band width of 15 ⁇ 5 nm can ordinarily be obtained easily though it depends upon a combination with an interference filter.
  • the spectral sensitivity of the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is continuous and its sensitivity is not changed within the wavelength of 15 ⁇ 5 nm regardless whether or not it is subjected to spectral sensitization processing.
  • exposure light-source examples include a system combining a tangusten light-source (its color temperature is 2856°K) with an inteference filter having a transmission maximum of 545 nm, when the fluorescent substance of a radiographic intensifying screen used in combination is terbium-activated oxy sulfide.
  • the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material used in the invention when developed with the above described developer at 35°C for 25 seconds, has a ⁇ value of preferably 1.8 to 3.2 wherein the ⁇ value represents a contrast from the minimum density plus 0.25 to the minimum density plus 2.0. Further, a ⁇ value from density 1.0 to density 2.0 is preferably 2.7 to 4.2.
  • one sheet intensifying screen is used for the measurement of crossover.
  • the intensifying screen is positioned in contact with a photographic light-sensitive material having a light-sensitive layer on each side of a support, and then a black paper is positioned in contact with the photographic light-sensitive material on the side of the support opposite the intensifying screen. Thereafter, the resulting composite material is exposed to an X-ray from the black paper side varying an X-ray exposure by changing a distance between target of an X-ray radiation source and the intensifying screen. The exposed material is developed and then divided into two portions.
  • the representative silver halide photographic light-sensitive material used in the invention comprises a blue-colored transparent support and provided on each side of the support, a subbing layer, a dye layer for reducing crossover, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a protective layer in this order.
  • Each layer on each side of the support is preferably the same as each other.
  • the support is made of a transparent material such as polyethyleneterephthalate, and colored by a blue dye.
  • a blue dye can be used various dyes such as anthraquinone type dyes known as colorants for an X-ray film.
  • the thickness of the support may be optionally selected from a range of 160 to 200 ⁇ m.
  • a subbing layer composed of a water soluble polymer such as gelatin may be provided on the support in the same manner as in an ordinary X-ray film.
  • the subbing layer is preferably provided a dye layer for reducing crossover.
  • the dye layer is ordinarily a colloid layer containing a dye and is decolored in the photographic processing as above described. It is also preferable that the dye is fixed to the lower portions of the dye layer so that it does not diffuse to the upper light-sensitive silver halide emulsion or protective layer.
  • the dye content of the dye layer which varies due to kinds of dyes is an amount necessary to give crossover of 5 to 15%, and preferably 25 to 80 mg per m on one side of light sensitive material.
  • anionic dyes used when a cationic mordant and an anionic dye are combined for forming a dye layer will be shown below.
  • dyes used in a dye layer in the form of solid fine crystals are as follows:
  • a silver halide emulsion layer is coated on the dye layer.
  • a composition of silver halide of the silver halide emulsion which can be used for the present invention include, any silver halide can be used for example, silver bromide, silver bromoiodide and silver bromochloroiodide.
  • the preferable silver halide composition is a silver bromoiodide emulsion containing silver iodide of 5 mol% or less.
  • the silver halide grain may be any crystal type provided that it is of the constitution of the present invention.
  • a mono-crystal such as cubic, octahedral and tetradecahedral are allowed, and a poly-twinned grain having various forms are allowed.
  • An emulsion used for the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention can be produced by a conventional method.
  • a method described in Research Disclosure (RD) No. 17643 (December, 1978), pp. 22 to 23 "Emulsion Preparation and Types" or a method described in RD No. 18716 (November, 1979), on page 648 can be used for preparation.
  • the emulsion used for the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention can be used by a method described in "The Theory of the Photographic Process” 4th edition written by T.H. James, published by Macmillan Inc. (1979), pp. 38 to 104, a method described in "Photographic Emulsion Chemistry” written by G.F. Duffin, published by Focal Press Inc. (1966), a method described in "Chimie et Physique Photographique” written by P. Glafkides, published by Paul Montel Inc. (1967) or a method described in "Making And Coating Photographic Emulsion” written by V.L. Zelikman, published by Focal Press Inc. (1964) for preparation.
  • a mixing condition such as an ordinary mixing method, a reverse mixing method, a double-jet method or a controlled double-jet method and a grain preparation condition such as a conversion method or a core/shell method or their conbination can be used for preparing the emulsion.
  • the preferable embodiment of the emulsion used for the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention includes a mono-dispersed emulsion wherein silver iodide is localized inside the grains.
  • "Mono-dispersed” referred to here is silver halide grains wherein at least 95% by number or by weight of grains is within ⁇ 40% and preferably ⁇ 30% of the average grain size when an average grain diameter is measured by a conventional method.
  • Grain distribution of silver halide may be of mono-dispersed emulsion having a narrow distribution or of poly-dispersed emulsion having a wide distribution.
  • the crystal structure of silver halide may be composed of a silver halide composition wherein inside and outside are different or it may be a core/shell type mono-dispersed emulsion having a clear two-layer structure wherein a shell layer of low silver iodide is laminated on a core portion of high silver iodide.
  • an emulsion used for the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material of the present invention for obtaining the above-mentioned mono-dispersed emulsion an emulsion wherein a seed crystal is used and silver ions and halide ions are supplied with this seed crystal as a growing nuclei for growing may be used.
  • the above-mentioned emulsion may be either of a surface latent image type wherein latent images are formed on the surface of grains, an inner latent image type wherein latent images are formed inside of the grains or a type wherein latent images are formed on the surface and inside of the grains.
  • cadmium salt for example, cadmium salt, lead salt, zinc salt, thalium salt, iridium salt or its complex salt, rhodium salt or its complex salt and iron salt or its complex salt may be added.
  • a noodle washing method and a floculation precipitation method can be used.
  • the preferable washing methods include a method that uses an aromatic hydrocarbon aldehyde resin containing a sulfo group described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 16086/1960 or a desalting method that uses polymer coagulation agents illustrated G-3 and G-8 described in Japanese Patent OPI. Publication No. 158644/1988.
  • various photographic additives may be used.
  • various compounds described in the above-mentioned (RD) No. 1743, (RD)No. 18716 and (RD) No. 308119 (December, 1989) can be used.
  • Kinds of compounds and places described in the above-mentioned three (RD) Research Disclosures will be described below.
  • radiographic intensifying screens respectively having two sheets for composing one set (namely, for a front placement use and for a rear placement use) were prepared.
  • SRO-250 commercially available article produced by Konica Corporation
  • SRO-500 commercially available article produced by Konica Corporation
  • Radiographic intensifying screen A (a test product A)
  • Radiographic intensifying screen A (a test product B)
  • a coating solution for forming a fluorescent substance sheet 8 parts by weight of fluorescent substance (Gd2O2S: Tb) having an average grain size of 4 ⁇ m and 1 part by weight of nitrocellulose were mixed by the use of a solvent (a mixture solution of acetone, ethyl acetate and butyl acetate in a weight ratio of 1:1:8) so that a coating solution having viscosity of 30 PS (25°C) was prepared.
  • This fluorescent substance coating solution was coated on a polyethylene terephthalate (a tentative support, the thickness is 180 ⁇ m), on which a silicone mold reliesing agent is coated, in a manner that a layer thickness becomes 150 ⁇ m (layer thickness after compression pressure described later) and dried to form a fluorescent substance sheet. Following this, the fluorescent substance sheet was peeled off from the tentative support.
  • a coating solution for a subbing layer was formed as follows: 90 g of a soft acrylic resin and 50 g of nitrocellulose were added to methylethylketone for mixing and dispersing so that a dispersion solution having viscosity of 3 to 6 PS (25°C) was prepared.
  • a polyethylene terephthalate support having a thickness of 250 ⁇ m which has a carbon black light-absorption layer was placed horizontally on a glass plate.
  • the above-mentioned coating solution for a subbing layer was coated on the support uniformly using a doctor blade. Thereafter, the temperature was raised gradually from 25°C to 100°C for drying the coating layer. Thus, a subbing layer having a layer thickness of 15 ⁇ m was formed on the support.
  • the fluorescent substance sheet formed above was placed. By means of a calender roll, the fluorescent substance sheet was subjected to compression operation at a pressure of 510 Kg/cm and temperature of 80°C.
  • a fluorine-containing resin (a fluoroolefin and vinyl ether copolymer), 25 g of a cross-linking agent (isocyanate type), 5 g of bisphenol A type epoxy resin and 5 g of alcohol denatured silicone oligomer (a substance having a dimethylpolysiloxane skelton and having a hydroxide group at the both ends) were added to a mixture solvent of toluene and isopropyl alcohol (the volume ratio is 1:1) for forming a coating solution for forming a protective layer.
  • the above-mentioned coating solution for the protective layer was coated by the use of a doctor blade on the surface of the fluorescent substance sheet provided with compression operation on the support in advance.
  • radiographic intensifying screen A composed of the support, the subbing layer, the fluorescent substance layer and the transparent protective layer was produced.
  • Radiographic intensifying screen B composed of a support, a subbing layer, a fluorescent substance layer and a transparent protective layer was prepared, in the same manner as in radiographic intensifying screen B except that the layer thickness of the fluorescent substance sheet (the thickness after compression processing) was 230 ⁇ m.
  • characteristics of the intensifying screens are measured according to the following method.
  • NEW C one-sided light-sensitive material, producd by Konica Corporation was placed to be in contact with an intensifying screen to be measured, and a chart for measuring MTF (produced by DaiNippon Toryo Co., Ltd., thickness: 0.05 mm, spatial frequency: 0.5 LP/mm to 10 LP/mm) was photographed.
  • the chart was positioned at 1.5 meters at a distance from an X-ray tube.
  • the light-sensitive material was placed in front of the X-ray source, and an intensifying screen was placed at the back of the light-sensitive material.
  • the X-ray tube used was DRX-2903HD produced by Toshiba wherein a tangsten target was used and the focal spot size was 2.0 x 1.0 mm.
  • an X-ray is emitted.
  • Voltage of 80 KVp was applied to three phases by means of a pulse generator to produce an X-ray which passed through 7 cm of water filter having absorption almost equivalent to human body as a radiation source.
  • the light-sensitive material after being exposed was subjected to photographic processing by the use of an automatic processing machine Model FPM-5000 produced by Fuji Film Co., Ltd., developing solution XD-90 and fixing solution, each produced by Konica Corporation at a developing temperature of 35°C and fixing a temperature of 33°C.
  • a measurement sample was prepared.
  • the exposure amount in X-ray photographing was adjusted in a manner that the average value of the maximum density and the minimum density after the above-mentioned photographic processing is 1.1.
  • the measurement sample was operated with a micro densitometer.
  • a slit having 30 ⁇ m for an operation direction and 500 ⁇ m for a vertical direction thereof was used and a density profile was measured at a sampling interval of 30 ⁇ m. This operation was repeated 10 times and the average value was calculated to obtain a basic density profile for calculating the CTF.
  • Table 1 shows values of the spatial frequency of 1 line/mm and 3 lines/mm.
  • the sensitivity was represented by an inverse of an X-ray exposure amount necessary to obtain density, Dmin + 1.0, and expressed by a relative sensitivity when the value of intensifying screen SRO-250 on the behide side (defined later) was defined to be 100. Table 1 shows the results thereof.
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.3 mol% of silver iodide and 98.7 mol% of silver bromide was prepared.
  • an average grain size was 1.22 ⁇ m
  • an average grain thickness was 0.41 ⁇ m
  • the dispersion of the grain size was 0.23 in terms of variation coefficient (in accordance with a method described in Japanese Patent OPI Publication No. 162244/1985).
  • the resulting emulsion was defined to be (A).
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.3 mol% of silver iodide and 98.7 mol% of silver bromide was prepared wherein an average grain size is 0.69 ⁇ m, an average grain size thickness is 0.24 ⁇ m and the dispersion of the grain size is 0.26 in terms of variation coefficient.
  • the resulting emulsion was defined to be emulsion (B).
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.4 mol% of silver iodide and 98.6 mol% of silver bromide was prepared.
  • the form of this emulsion was octahedral whose grain size dispersion was 0.17 in terms of variation coefficient.
  • the resulting emulsion was defined to be (C).
  • sensitizing dyes (X) and (Y) were added at 55°C to (A) in an amount of 400 mg per mol of silver halide, to (B) in an amount of 900 mg per mol of silver halide and to (C) in an amount of 1100 mg per mol of silver halide wherein the weight ratio of (X) and (Y) was 20:1.
  • emulsions (A), (B) and (C) were mixed at a rate of 10:65:25 in terms of mol ratio of silver halide.
  • the oil-based solvent and the water-based solvent were placed in a dispersion tank. While keeping at 40°C, they were dispersed.
  • Additives used for a protective layer were as follows. The amounts added are represented by those per 1 liter of coating solution.
  • a coating solution having the following composition was coated in an amount of a dye as shown below to form a dye layer.
  • an emulsion layer and a surface protective layer were coated in a manner that an emulsion coating solution was 2.3 g/m in terms of silver on one surface, the amount of gelatin was 2.0 g/m and the amount of gelatin for the protective layer was 0.9 g/m by means of a simultaneous extrusion coating method at the speed of 90 meters per minute.
  • the resulting layers were dried for 2 minutes and 30 seconds to produce silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 1.
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 2 was produced, except that the coating amount of dye (illustrated compound 20) in the dye layer was changed to 30 mg/m.
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 3 was produced, except that the coating amount of dye (illustrated compound 20) in the dye layer was changed to 70 mg/m.
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 4 was produced, except that the coating amount of dye (illustrated compound 20) in the dye layer was changed to 85 mg/m.
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.5 mol% of silver iodide and 98.5 mol% of silver bromide was prepared. This emulsion was octahedral whose average grain size is 0.41 ⁇ m and the dispersion property of grain size is 0.16 in terms of variation coefficient. The resulting emulsion was defined to be (E).
  • octahedral silver bromoiodide emulsions respectively composed of 1.5 mol% of silver iodide and 98.5 mol% of silver bromide whose average grain sizes were 0.57 ⁇ m and 1.1 ⁇ m were prepared. They were respectively defined to be emulsions (F) and (G).
  • the resulting emulsions (E), (F) and (G) were subjected to the optimal sensitization in the same manner as that in production of silver halide light-sensitive material 1.
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.3 mol% of silver iodide and 98.7 mol% of silver bromide was prepared. This emulsion has an average grain size of 1.50 ⁇ m, average grain size thickness of 0.49 ⁇ m and dispersion property of particle size of 0.28 in terms of variation coefficient.
  • the resulting emulsion was defined to be (H).
  • emulsions (H), (I) and (J) were mixed in mol ratio of 8:67:25 to prepare a coating emulsion.
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 3 silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 6 was produced, except that the coating emulsion was coated by 2.5 g/m in terms of silver on one side.
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.3 mol% of silver iodide and 98.7 mol% of silver bromide was prepared. This emulsion has an average grain size of 1.61 ⁇ m, average grain size thickness of 0.52 and dispersion property of 0.32 in terms of variation coefficient. The resulting emulsion was defined to be (K).
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.3 mol% of silver iodide and 98.7 mol% of silver bromide was prepared. This emulsion has an average grain size of 0.46 ⁇ m, average grain size thickness of 0.22 ⁇ m and dispersion property of grain size of 0.15 in terms of variation coefficient.
  • the resulting emulsion was defined to be (N).
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.5 mol% of silver iodide and 98.5 mol% of silver bromide was coated. This emulsion was octahedral whose average grain size was 0.64 ⁇ m and the dispersion property of grain size was 0.16 in terms of variation coefficient.
  • the resulting emulsion was defined to be (O).
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive materil 9 was produced, except that the dye in the subbing layer on the support was replaced with illustrated compound 1 and its coating amount was changed to 20 mg/m on one surface.
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive materil 10 was produced, except that the coating amount of dye (illustrated compound 1) on a subbing layer on a support was changed to 10 mg/m.
  • a silver bromoiodide emulsion composed of 1.3 mol% of silver iodide and 98.7 mol% of silver bromide was prepared. This emulsion has an average grain size of 0.72 ⁇ m, average grain size thickness of 0.23 and dispersion property of grain size of 0.15 in terms of variation coefficient. The resulting emulsion was defined to be (Q).
  • emulsions (Q) and (R) were mixed at the rate of 85:15 in terms of mol ratio of silver halide to prepare a coating solution.
  • This emulsion was coated by 2.7 g/m in conversion to silver per one surface.
  • silver halide photographic light-sensitive materil 11 was produced, except the coated amount of dye (illustrated compound 1) on the subbing layer of the support was changed to be 85 mg/m.
  • a light-sensitive material was exposed through a neutral step wedge for 1/12.5 seconds. After exposure, the light-sensitive material was developed at 35 °C for 25 seconds (the total processing time was 90 seconds) by the use of automatic processing machine FPM-5000 (produced by Fuji Film Co., Ltd.) and a developing solution having the following composition. After the light-sensitive layer on the opposite side of the exposure surface was peeled off, the density was measured for obtaining characteristic curve.
  • an exposure amount necessary to obtain density of the minimum density (Dmin) plus 0.5 was calculated and defined to be sensitivity.
  • the sensitivity is shown in Table 2 in terms of lux•second.
  • illuminance emitted from the tungsten light source and transmitted through the filter was measured by the use of illuminator IM-3 (produced by TOPCON Co., Ltd.).
  • the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material was sandwiched with radiographic intesifying screen SRD-250 (produced by Konica Corporation) and a black paper. From the black paper side, X-ray was irradiated.
  • As the X-ray source the same source as that used in the evaluation of intensifying screen was used. The X-ray was irradiated while the irradiation amount of the X-ray was changed by means of a distance method. After irradiating, the light-sensitive material was subjected to photographic processing in the same manner as in the measurement of the above-mentioned sensitivity. This processed light-sensitive material was divided into two portions and a light-sensitive layer on one side was peeled off.
  • Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 1 0.0094 17.7 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 2 0.0094 14.2 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 3 0.0094 5.9 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 4 0.0094 4.1 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 5 0.0120 14.3 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 6 0.0063 14.0 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 7 0.0056 14.2 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 8 0.0104 14.2 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 9 0.0120 18.3 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 10 0.0094 23.9 Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material 11 0.0084 1.9
  • the composite was subjected to exposure and photographic processing in the same manner as in the above-mentioned sensitivity measurement method of an intensifying screen, except that a light-sensitive material to be evaluated was sandwiched with 2 sheets of intensifying screens to be evaluated.
  • the sensitivity was represented by a relative value of an inverse of an X-ray exposure amount necessary to obtain the minimum density (Dmin) + 1.0, with the proviso that the sensitivity of composite, SRO-250 silver halide photographic light-sensitive material was a standard value (100).
  • the ⁇ value was represented by an average ⁇ value between density 1.0 and 2.0.
  • the light-sensitive material to be evaluated was sandwiched with two intensifying screens to be evaluated in a conventional manner, and then, the above-mentioned rectangular chart for measuring the MTF was photographed.
  • the chart was placed 2 meters from the above-mentioned X-ray tube, and on the front side of the chart in terms of the X-ray source, a light-sensitive material was placed, and the intensifying screen was placed at the back side thereof.
  • the light-sensitive material after being exposed was subjected to photographic processing in the same manner as above by the use of the above-mentioned roller conveyance type automatic processing machine (FPM-5000) so that a measurement sample was prepared. Incidentally, an amount of exposure in radiographing was also adjusted in the same manner as above.
  • the measurement sample was manupulated by means of a microdensitometer so that density profile was measured. This operation was repeated 20 times so that an average value was calculated. This was defined to be a basic density profile for calculating the CTF. Following this, a peak of rectangular wave for each frequency was detected so that density contrast for each frequency was calculated. Next, by the use of a characteristics curve calculated separately, the above-mentioned density contrast was converted to a rectangular contrast of an effective exposure amount.
  • Chest phantom produced by Kyoto Kagaku and a three phase and 12 pulse 110Kvp X-ray source having a focal spot size of 2.0 mm x 1.0 mm (equipped with a filter equivalent to a 3 mm thick aluminium) were used.
  • the phantom was placed at a distance of 150 cm, a scattering-cutting grid having a grid ratio of 10:1 was placed at the back thereof, and, at the back thereof, a composite of light-sensitive material and the intensifying screen was placed for radiographing.
  • Photographic processing was conducted at 35°C for 90 seconds (the developing time was 25 seconds) by the use of automatic processing machine FPM-5000, developing solution XD-90 and fixer XF.
  • X-ray exposure was adjusted by changing exposure time to obtain a density of 1.6 at one specified point in a lung image. Finished chest phantome photographs were observed on a viewing box for sharpness. Mainly, the degree of easiness for observing the shadow of blood vessel in a lung was evaluated. Highest degree was defined to be A, higher degree was defined to be B, standard degree was defined to be C, lower degree capable of being marginally diagnosed was defined to be D and lowest degree unable to be disgnosed was defined to be E.
  • the composite of the silver halide photographic light-sensitive material and the radiographic intensifying screen of the invention has high sensitivity, is reduced in an X-ray dose amount, high and gives an X-ray image having sharpness and excellent graininess.
  • the cross-over of the light-sensitive material by setting the cross-over of the light-sensitive material within 5% to 15%, an image excellent in sharpness and graininess can be provided.
  • the cross-over of the light-sensitive material is 15% or more, sharpness becomes poor as in No. 7.
  • the cross-over is 5% or less, graininess cannot be maintained as in No. 8.
  • an exposure necessary to give the minimum density plus 0.5 is 0.0060 to 0.0110 lux ⁇ second.
  • the exposure less than 0.0060 gives markedly lowered graininess.

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