Silver-halide-containing photothermographic element for improved scanning
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsRichard P. Szajewski, David H. Levy
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a photothermographic element in which the density formed in a thermally processed photothermographic element is limited for the purpose of scanning the element prior to removal of silver halide, metallic silver, and/or any organic silver salts. In one embodiment of the invention, this is accomplished by employing limited quantities of sensitized silver halide in a photothermographic element.
Claims20
A color photothermographic element for accurately recording a scene as an image comprising a support and coated on the support a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers comprising radiation sensitive silver-halide emulsion layers forming recording layer units for separately recording blue, green, and red exposures wherein the amount of silver halide in the element is 1 to 4.5 g/m2.
A method of processing a photothermographic element for accurately recording a scene as an image which element comprising a support and coated on the support a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers comprising radiation sensitive silver-halide emulsion layers forming recording layer units for separately recording blue, green, and red exposures wherein the amount of silver halide in the element is 1 to 4.5 g/m2, which method comprises thermally developing an imagewise exposed element and then scanning the element, to form an electronic image representation of said imagewise exposure, which scanning occurs before removing any silver halide from the film.
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