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Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2005
Applicants:

Hajime Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshihisa Tsukada, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Hajime Nakagawa, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshihisa Tsukada, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C 1/76 (2006.01); G03C 1/498 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and at least one non-photosensitive layer which is disposed on the same side as the image forming layer and farther from the support than the image forming layer, wherein (1) 50% by weight or more of the binder is a polymer latex having a monomer component having an acid group, and (2) the polymer latex has a core/shell structure having a core part and a shell part, and the monomer component having an acid group in the core part is 2 mol % to 20 mol % of a total amount of the monomer component having an acid group in the polymer latex. The invention provides a photothermographic material which exhibits excellent image uniformity with low fog.


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