Fujifilm Corporation

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Tatsuya Ishizaka

Katsuyuki Takada

Haruyasu Nakatsugawa

Shinya Sugimoto

Hidekazu Sakai

Susumu Osawa

Naoto Ohshima

Seiji Yamashita

Yoshinori Morimoto

Tetsuo Nakamura

Futoshi Yoshida

Shin Soejima

Yasuaki Deguchi

Akito Yokozawa

Naoki Asanuma

Tetsuo Kawano

Yoshiro Ochiai

Hikaru Urano

Atsushi Maruhashi

Takehisa Ohno

Hisashi Okada

Hisashi Okamura

Terukazu Yanagi

Akira Hatakeyama

Mitsuo Saitou

Munehisa Fujita

Shinichi Nakahira

Isao Yonekubo

Atsushi Kato

Tomoyuki Ozeki

There are provided a sample acquisition information management device, a sample acquisition information management system, and a sample acquisition information management method that allow a subject who is to collect a sample by oneself to reliably perform a sample acquisition operation. Each of the sample acquisition information management device and the sample acquisition information management system includes an image acquisition unit () that acquires an image and a video of a sample acquisition operation of a subject using a sample examination kit, an output unit () that outputs acquisition means information and operation check information, and a processing unit () that determines whether or not the image or the video acquired by the image acquisition unit () corresponds to a correct sample acquisition operation and controls display of the acquisition means information and the operation check information. Further, the sample acquisition information management method uses the sample acquisition information management system.

Sample acquisition information management device, sample acquisition information management system, and sample acquisition information management method

An object of the present invention is to provide a blood analysis method and a blood test kit, which are for performing quantitative analysis of components by precisely obtaining a dilution factor. According to the present invention, provided is a blood analysis method including a step of diluting a collected blood sample with a diluent solution; a step of determining a dilution factor by using a normal value of a normal component which is homeostatically present in blood; and a step of analyzing a concentration of a target component in the blood sample, in which the blood analysis method uses a member selected from the group consisting of a first storing instrument for storing a diluent solution, a separation instrument for separating and recovering blood plasma from the blood sample diluted with the diluent solution, a holding instrument for holding the separation instrument, a second storing instrument for storing the recovered blood plasma, and a sealing instrument for keeping the stored blood plasma within the second storing instrument, in which the diluent solution defines an amount of the normal component which is derived from the diluent solution and/or the members and may be contained in the diluent solution, and in which a volume of the blood sample is 50 &#x3bc;L or less, and a dilution factor of a blood plasma component in the blood sample is 14 times or more.

Blood analysis method and blood test kit

An object of the present invention is to provide a blood analysis method in which a high level of repeatability and reproducibility is achieved with respect to measurement values in a blood sample, and a blood test kit which is used for the blood analysis method. According to the present invention, a blood analysis method including a step of diluting a collected blood sample with a diluent solution; a step of quantitatively determining sodium ions in the diluent solution of the blood sample by using a solution containing &#x3b2;-galactosidase and at least one substrate which is convertible by &#x3b2;-galactosidase so as to determine a dilution factor from a normal value of serum and blood plasm sodium ions which are homeostatically present in the blood and the quantitative value of sodium ions; and a step of analyzing a concentration of a target component to be measured in the blood sample from the determined dilution factor and a measurement value of a concentration of the target component to be measured in the blood sample, in which the diluent solution is a diluent solution which does not contain sodium ions, is provided.

An object is to provide a blood test kit and a blood analysis method capable of performing a blood test with a small amount of blood at high accuracy by visualizing a volume of blood collection and keeping the volume constant. Provided is a blood test kit for analyzing a concentration of a target component in a blood sample using a normal component homeostatically present in blood, the kit including: a blood collection instrument for collecting the blood sample; a diluent solution for diluting the collected blood sample; and a storing instrument for storing the diluted blood sample, in which the blood collection instrument is a capillary.

Blood test kit and analyzing method using the same

An object of the present invention is to provide a blood analysis method in which a high level of repeatability and reproducibility is achieved with respect to measurement values in a blood sample of 50 &#x3bc;L or less, and a blood test kit which is used for the blood analysis method. According to the present invention, a blood analysis method including a step of diluting a collected blood sample with a diluent solution; a step of determining a dilution factor by using a normal value of a normal component which is homeostatically present in the blood; and a step of analyzing a concentration of a target component in the blood sample, in which a volume of the blood sample is 50 &#x3bc;L or less, a dilution factor of blood plasma components in the blood sample is 14 or higher, and the diluent solution is a diluent solution which does not contain the normal component which is homeostatically present in the blood, is provided.

To provide an optical resin composition containing carbonate crystals, which have oriented birefringence, have a needle- or rod-like shape, and are able to negate the birefringence without sacrificing the light transmittance of a transparent polymeric resin where the carbonate crystal exists, and a method for producing the resin composition. To achieve this provided are an optical resin composition containing a resin and carbonate crystals, wherein the carbonate crystals have a specific surface area of 4 m/g or more, and the carbonate crystals dispersed into the resin have an average dispersion diameter of 500 nm at a maximum, and a method for producing the optical resin composition.

Optical resin composition and method for producing the same

The object of the present invention is to provide a carbonate crystal, which has oriented birefringence, is needle- or rod-like, and is able to negate the birefringence without sacrificing the light transmittance of a transparent polymeric resin when it exists in the transparent resin; a manufacturing method of the carbonate crystal; and a transparent optical resin composition comprising the carbonate resin. The carbonate crystal has an aspect ratio of two or greater, the average major axis length of 400 nm or shorter, and the variation coefficient expressed in Formula (1) below is 0.40 or less: wherein r denotes an average major axis length, n denotes the number of particles used for the measurement of the major axis length, and n denotes the major axis length of the iparticle measured.

Carbonate crystal, manufacturing method thereof, and transparent optical resin composition

A silver halide color photosensitive material, having, on a transparent support, at least one each of yellow-, cyan-, and magenta-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers, and photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler that forms a dye having its absorption maximum at a wavelength longer than 730 nm upon reaction with an oxidized product of a developing agent, wherein the yellow-color-forming photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains photosensitive silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.4 &#x3bc;m or below and a silver chloride content of 95 mole % or above based on total silver in the grains, andwherein the photosensitive silver halide grains include photosensitive silver halide grains whose iodide ion concentrations have their maxima at grain surfaces and decrease gradually toward the interior of the grains;and a method of processing a silver halide color photosensitive material for use in film screening.

Silver halide color photosensitive material and method of processing the same

A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having the steps of: performing exposure of the light-sensitive material cut into sheets; and subjecting the exposed light-sensitive material sheets to photographic processing, while conveying them with conveying rollers, with the sheet conveying speed being 40.0 to 100 mm/sec; wherein the light-sensitive material to be exposed contains any of: 1) a dye-forming coupler of formula (IA), 2) a compound of formula (I), and 3) 1.4 mg/mor more of a compound of formula (II); 

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and color image-forming method

A color-image forming method in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having the steps of: performing exposure of the light-sensitive material cut into sheets; and subjecting the exposed light-sensitive material sheets to photographic processing, while conveying them with conveying rollers, with the sheet conveying speed being 40.0 to 100 mm/sec; wherein the light-sensitive material to be exposed contains any of: 1) a dye-forming coupler of formula (IA), 2) a compound of formula (I), and 3) 1.4 mg/mor more of a compound of formula (II); wherein R' and R&#x2033; are a substituent; Z is a hydrogen atom, or a coupling split-off group; A is an alkyl group, M is a cation, and R is an atom or group having 100 or lower total molecular weight.

An image-forming method comprising: employing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, at least one color-mix preventing layer and at least one protective layer, wherein the said silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler includes a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more and containing at least one specific blue-sensitive sensitizing dye; and exposing the said silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material to a blue semiconductor laser of a wavelength shorter by 30 nm to 60 nm than the wavelength at which the said blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion has the spectral sensitivity maximum.

Image forming method using a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, and silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

Image-forming method using a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, and silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material with a magenta emulsion layer containing a pyrazolotriazole magenta dye-forming coupler and containing an emulsion whose silver chloride content is 98 mol % or more, with a light-insensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a solid fine-particle dispersion of a dye. The magenta emulsion layer is a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer most apart from the light-insensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer among all the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers. A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for cinema, in which light-sensitive silver halide particles have a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more, a total coated amount of silver is 1.7 g/mor less, a thickness of the film on the support on the side of layers containing the light-sensitive silver halide is 12.0 &#x3bc;m or less, and the swelling rate to water is 200% or less. An image-forming method utilizing the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material for cinema.

Silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material and image-forming method

The invention provides an image forming method in which a silver halide color photosensitive material has a back layer on an opposite side to the silver halide emulsion layers. The back layer contains colloidal silica and has a surface resistance of 1.0&times;10 &OHgr; or less on the surface of the back layer, or a charge leak time of 200 seconds or less on the surface of the back layer, and an image forming method in which a silver halide color photosensitive material comprises at least one selected from fluorine type surfactants represented by general formulae (I), (II), (III) or (IV), the color development is executed with a replenishing amount of the color developer of 20 to 60 ml per 1 m of the photosensitive material, and the bleach-fixing is executed with a replenishing amount of the bleach-fixing solution of 20 to 50 ml per 1 m of it:

Image forming method

Disclosed are a silver halide emulsion and a silver halide photosensitive material copmrising a support and at least one photosensitive layer comprising the silver halide emulsion. The photosensitive emulsion comprises silver halide grains, wherein the silver chloride content is 90 mole % or more; the silver halide grains contain (I) at least one member of a six-coordinated complex in which iridium (Ir) is a central metal having halogen atom and O, H O, thiazole or substituted thiazole as ligands and (II) at least one member of a six-coordinated complex in which iridium (Ir) is a central metal having halogen atom as a ligand; and the iridium compound (II) is present in a localized silver bromide phase.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tatsuya Ishizaka