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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1999
Steven M Shor, Woodbury, MN (US);
James B Philip, Jr, Mahtomedi, MN (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An infrared sensitized photothermographic silver halide element comprising a support layer having on at least one surface thereof a photothermographic composition comprising a binder, a light insensitive silver source, a reducing agent for silver ion and infrared radiation sensitive preformed silver halide grains having number average particle size of <0.10 micron with at least 80% of all grains with .+-.0.05 microns of the average, in combination with an antihalation layer having an absorbance ratio of IR absorbance (before exposure)/visible absorbance (after processing) >30, and an IR absorbance of at least 0.3 within the range of 750-1400 and an optical density of less than 0.03 in the visible region.