EP1004929B1 - Black and white monosheet thermographic recording material with improved diagnostic capability - Google Patents
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to thermographic recording materials with improved diagnostic capability.
- Thermal imaging or thermography is a recording process wherein images are generated by the use of thermal energy.
- direct thermal thermography a visible image pattern is formed by image-wise heating of a recording material containing matter that by chemical or physical process changes colour or optical density.
- Such recording materials become photothermographic upon incorporating a photosensitive agent which after exposure to UV, visible or IR light is capable of catalyzing or participating in a thermographic process bringing about changes in colour or optical density.
- photothermographic materials are the so called “Dry Silver” photothermographic materials of the 3M Company, which are reviewed by D. A. Morgan in “Handbook of Imaging Science”, edited by A. R. Diamond, page 43, published by Marcel Dekker in 1991.
- EP-A 889 355 discloses a thermographic recording material comprising a substantially colourless support and a thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent for the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, characterized in that a blue pigment or dye having an absorption maximum in the wavelength range from 550 to 700 nm is present in the thermosensitive element and/or any other layer on either side of the support which provides a background for viewing in transmission images produced with the thermographic recording material.
- US 5,783,380 discloses a thermally processable imaging element comprising: (1) a support; (2) a thermographic or photothermographic imaging layer on one side of the support; (3) a protective layer overlying the image-forming layer; said protective layer comprising: (A) a film forming binder; (B) a dye dispersed throughout said protective layer in an amount sufficient to impart a pre-selected color thereto; and (C) matte particles the color of the protective layer.
- No disclosure is made in US 5,783,380 regarding colorant in the support.
- EP-A 919 864 discloses a photothermographic element comprising at least one photosensitive layer on a support, wherein the support contains a dye of structure I: wherein M is a multi-valent metal atom; each of R 1 , R 4 , R 5 , R 8 , R 9 , R 12 , R 13 and R 16 independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group; each of R 2 , R 3 , R 6 , R 7 , R 10 , R 11 , R 14 and R 15 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxygroup; or one or more of the adjacent pairs R 1 and R 2 , R 2
- Imaging materials for medical applications are in general produced using a support with a particular blue pigment e.g. MACROLEXTM BLUE 3R from BAYER.
- the colour of such supports can be defined in terms of L*, a* and b* CIELAB-values which are determined by spectrophotometric measurements according to ASTM Norm E179-90 in a R(45/0) geometry with evaluation according to ASTM Norm E308-90.
- Representative supports used for medical imaging materials have CIELAB-a* values and -b* values given in the table below.
- the background colour and the colour of an image is a combination of the colour of the support and the colour of the image background and the image of the particular material upon printing.
- the CIELAB-a* and -b* values of the image are virtually independent of image density, whereas this is not the case for thermographic recording materials based on organic silver salts and reducing agents.
- thermographic recording materials based on organic silver salts and reducing agents using a support with a particular blue pigment, whether produced by thermography or photothermography, thereby ensuring more reliable diagnosis.
- thermographic recording materials whose prints enable more reliable diagnosis.
- a blue-pigmented support such as used for conventional silver halide X-ray films does not provide an image with optimum diagnostic reliability, but that incorporation of at least two colorants which are not antihalation dyes one of which is in the support and the other is in the support or in any layer making up the thermographic recording material, while ensuring that the blue background necessary for preventing over-exposure of the eyes of the viewer upon viewing in transmission with a view-box and reducing light scattering is maintained, produces an image with improved diagnostic capability.
- a substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650nm and comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, said thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, characterized in that the substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorption at a wavelength between 450nm and 700nm; none of the at least two colorants is an antihalation dye; and at least one of the at least two colorants is incorporated in the support.
- a black and white monosheet photothermographic recording material having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650nm and comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element, said photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, characterized in that the black and white monosheet photothermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorptions at a wavelength between 450nm and 700nm; at least one of the at least two colorants is incorporated in the support and the other of said at least two colorants is incorporated in said thermosensitive element, in a protective layer, in a layer on the other side of said support to said thermosensitive element, in any other layer which is part of the thermographic recording material or in several layers thereof; and none of the at least two
- thermographic recording process comprising the steps of: (i) bringing an outermost layer of the above-mentioned thermographic recording material in proximity with a heat source; (ii) applying heat from the heat source imagewise to the recording material while maintaining proximity to the heat source to produce an image; and (iii) removing the recording material from the heat source.
- a photothermographic recording process is further provided according to the present invention comprising the steps of: (i) imagewise exposing the above-mentioned photothermographic recording material; (ii) bringing an outermost layer of the photothermographic recording material in proximity with a heat source; (iii) applying heat from the heat source under substantially water-free conditions to the photothermographic recording material while maintaining proximity to the heat source to produce an image; and (iv) removing the photothermographic recording material from the heat source.
- the heat source is a thermal head with a thin film thermal head being particularly preferred.
- colorant means dyes and pigments.
- the L*, a* and b* CIELAB-values define the colour of objects and are determined by spectrophotometric measurements according to ASTM Norm E179-90 in a R(45/0) geometry with evaluation according to ASTM Norm E308-90.
- alkyl means all variants possible for each number of carbon atoms in the alkyl group i.e. for three carbon atoms: n-propyl and isopropyl; for four carbon atoms: n-butyl, isobutyl and tertiary-butyl; for five carbon atoms: n-pentyl, 1,1-dimethylpropyl, 2,2-dimethylpropyl and 2-methyl-butyl etc.
- thermographic recording material includes both thermographic and photothermographic recording materials unless qualified by the expression substantially light-insensitive.
- substantially light-insensitive is meant not intentionally light sensitive.
- antihalation means having the function of minimizing reflection of incident light from an interface in a material, e.g. from the base into the emulsion of a photographic material, during image-wise exposure. In the case of a material exposed to laser light, this means at the wavelength of the laser light.
- aqueous in the term aqueous medium includes mixtures of water-miscible organic solvents such as alcohols e.g. methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, butanol, iso-amyl alcohol etc.; glycols e.g. ethylene glycol; glycerine; N-methyl pyrrolidone; methoxypropanol; and ketones e.g. 2-propanone and 2-butanone etc. with water in which water constitutes more than 50% by weight of the aqueous medium with 65% by weight of the aqueous medium being preferred and 80% by weight of the aqueous being particularly preferred.
- alcohols e.g. methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, butanol, iso-amyl alcohol etc.
- glycols e.g. ethylene glycol
- glycerine N-methyl pyrrolidone
- methoxypropanol methoxypropanol
- ketones e
- heat solvent in this invention is meant a non-hydrolyzable organic material which is in a solid state in the recording layer at temperatures below 50°C, but becomes a plasticizer for the recording layer when thermally heated and/or a liquid solvent for the organic silver salt or the reducing agent.
- Heating in a substantially water-free condition means heating at a temperature of 80 to 250°C.
- substantially water-free condition means that the reaction system is approximately in equilibrium with water in the air, and water for inducing or promoting the reaction is not particularly or positively supplied from the exterior to the element. Such a condition is described in T.H. James, "The Theory of the Photographic Process", Fourth Edition, Macmillan 1977, page 374.
- thermographic recording materials with improved diagnostic capability have been realized according to the present invention by the incorporation of two or more colorants.
- one of these colorants is incorporated into the support and the other may be variously incorporated into the support or in one or more of the layers of the thermographic recording material e.g. in the thermosensitive element, a protective layer, a layer on the other side of the support to the thermosensitive element, in any other layer which is part of the thermographic recording material or in several layers thereof.
- the second colorant is in the thermosensitive element and/or a layer on the other side of the support to the thermosensitive element.
- thermographic recording materials of the present invention do not react with other ingredients in whichever layer they are present in and do not fade significantly under the exposure in light boxes such as those used for the viewing of diagnostic transparencies.
- thermographic recording material of the present invention two colorants are used having maximum absorptions in the ranges 500 to 560nm and 580 to 700nm respectively. In another preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording material of the present invention, two colorants are used having maximum absorptions in the ranges 550 to 580nm and 585 to 700nm respectively. In yet another preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording material of the present invention, two colorants are used having maximum absorptions in the ranges 580 to 640nm and 650 to 670nm respectively.
- the one of the at least two colorants incorporated in the support is represented by formula (II): wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 and R 6 are independently each hydrogen or an alkyl group.
- thermographic recording material of the present invention the two or more colorants are selected such that at an image optical density of 1.0, the thermographic recording material has a CIELAB-a* value in the range of -3.75 to -5.75 and a CIELAB-b* value in the range of -6.3 to -8.3 as determined by spectrophotometric measurements according to ASTM Norm E179-90 in a R(45/0) geometry with evaluation according to ASTM Norm E308-90.
- colorants will depend upon the image colour of the thermographic recording material without the addition of such colorants, which will vary with thermographic recording material composition.
- the colorants may be dyes or pigments or mixtures thereof.
- the following colorants are shown to be useful in achieving the required diagnostic improvement while having a maximum absorption for visible light in the range of 570 to 650nm:
- the support is exclusive of of a dye of structure (I): wherein M is a multi-valent metal atom; each of R 1 , R 4 , R 5 , R 8 , R 9 , R 12 , R 13 and R 16 independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group; each of R 2 , R 3 , R 6 , R 7 , R 10 , R 11 , R 14 and R 15 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxygroup; or one or more of the adjacent pairs R 1 and R 2 , R 2 and R 3 , R 3 and R
- thermosensitive element contains a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder.
- the element may comprise a layer system in which the ingredients may be dispersed in different layers, with the proviso that the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt is in reactive association with the reducing agent i.e. during the thermal development process the reducing agent must be present in such a way that it is able to diffuse to the particle of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt so that reduction to silver can occur.
- thermosensitive element further contains photosensitive silver halide, making the thermosensitive element photo-addressable and thermally developable and the thermographic recording material photothermographic.
- Preferred organic silver salts for use in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention are substantially light-insensitive silver salts of an organic carboxylic acid.
- Preferred substantially light-insensitive silver salts of an organic carboxylic acid are silver salts of aliphatic carboxylic acids, known as fatty acids, with at least 12 carbon atoms, e.g. silver laurate, silver palmitate, silver stearate, silver hydroxystearate, silver oleate and silver behenate.
- Other silver salts of an organic carboxylic acid as described in GB-P 1,439,478, e.g. silver benzoate may likewise be used to produce a thermally developable silver image.
- Combinations of different silver salts of organic carboxylic acids, also as mixed crystals may also be used in the present invention, as disclosed in unpublished European Patent Application EP98201964.8.
- Organic silver salts may be dispersed by standard dispersion techniques e.g. using ball mills, bead mills, microfluidizers, ultrasonic apparatuses, rotor stator mixers etc. have been found to be useful in this regard.
- Suitable organic reducing agents for the reduction of mixed crystals of two or more organic silver salts are organic compounds containing at least one active hydrogen atom linked to O, N or C, such as is the case with, aromatic di- and tri-hydroxy compounds; aminophenols; METOLTM; p-phenylene-diamines; alkoxynaphthols, e.g. 4-methoxy-1-naphthol described in US-P 3,094,41; pyrazolidin-3-one type reducing agents, e.g.
- PHENIDONETM pyrazolin-5-ones; indan-1,3-dione derivatives; hydroxytetrone acids; hydroxytetronimides; hydroxylamine derivatives such as for example described in US-P 4,082,901; hydrazine derivatives; and reductones e.g. ascorbic acid; see also US-P 3,074,809, 3,080,254, 3,094,417 and 3,887,378.
- 1,2-dihydroxybenzene derivatives such as catechol, 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) propionic acid, 1,2-dihydroxybenzoic acid, gallic acid and esters e.g. methyl gallate, ethyl gallate, propyl gallate, tannic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxy-benzoic acid esters are preferred, with those described in EP-B 692 733 and EP-A 903 625 being particularly preferred.
- thermosensitive element contains a 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl compound in which a benzene ring substituted with any group in the 1-position is further substituted with hydroxy-groups in the 3- and 4-positions, the 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl compound being preferably selected from the group consisting of gallic acid derivatives, gallates, ethyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate, butyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate and 3,4-dihydroxybenzonitrile.
- Combinations of reducing agents may also be used that on heating become reactive partners in the reduction of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, or mixtures or mixed crystals of two or more organic silver salts.
- combinations of reducing agents with sulfonamidophenols are described in the periodical Research Disclosure, February 1979, item 17842, in US-P 4,360,581 and 4,782,004, and in EP-A 423 891 and combinations of sterically hindered phenols with sulfonyl hydrazide reducing agents such as disclosed in US-P 5,464,738; trityl hydrazides and formyl-phenyl-hydrazides such as disclosed in US-P 5,496,695; trityl hydrazides and formyl-phenyl-hydrazides with diverse auxiliary reducing agents such as disclosed in US-P 5,545,505, US-P 5.545.507 and US-P 5,558,983; acrylonitrile compounds as disclosed in US-P 5,
- Organic reducing metal salts e.g. stannous stearate
- stannous stearate have also been used in such reducing agent combinations, as disclosed in US-P 3,460,946 and 3,547,648, as have sterically hindered phenols and bisphenols, as described in US-P 4,001,026 and US-P 3,547,648 respectively.
- thermosensitive element Binder of the thermosensitive element
- the film-forming binder of the thermosensitive element may be all kinds of natural, modified natural or synthetic resins or mixtures of such resins, in which the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt or mixed crystals thereof can be dispersed homogeneously either in aqueous or solvent media: e.g. cellulose derivatives such as ethylcellulose, cellulose esters, e.g.
- cellulose nitrate carboxymethylcellulose, starch ethers, galactomannan
- polymers derived from ⁇ , ⁇ -ethylenically unsaturated compounds such as polyvinyl chloride, after-chlorinated polyvinyl chloride, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate, polyvinyl acetate and partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetals that are made from polyvinyl alcohol as starting material in which only a part of the repeating vinyl alcohol units may have reacted with an aldehyde, preferably polyvinyl butyral, copolymers of acrylonitrile and acrylamide, polyacrylic acid esters, polymethacrylic acid esters, polystyrene and polyethylene or mixtures thereof.
- Suitable water-soluble film-forming binders for use in thermographic recording materials according to the present invention are: polyvinyl alcohol, polyacrylamide, polymethacrylamide, polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyethyleneglycol, proteinaceous binders such as gelatin, modified gelatins such as phthaloyl gelatin, polysaccharides, such as starch, gum arabic and dextran and water-soluble cellulose derivatives.
- a preferred water-soluble binder for use in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention is gelatin.
- Preferred water-dispersible binders for use according to the present invention are water-dispersible film-forming polymers with covalently bonded ionic groups selected from the group consisting of sulfonate, sulfinate, carboxylate, phosphate, quaternary ammonium, tertiary sulfonium and quaternary phosphonium groups.
- Further preferred water-dispersible binders for use according to the present invention are water-dispersible film-forming polymers with covalently bonded moieties with one or more acid groups.
- Water-dispersible binders with crosslinkable groups, e.g. epoxy groups, aceto-acetoxy groups and crosslinkable double bonds are also preferred.
- Particularly preferred water-dispersible binders for use in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention are polymer latexes.
- Binder to organic silver salt weight ratios decreases the gradation of the image increasing. Binder to organic silver salt weight ratios of 0.2 to 6 are preferred with weight ratios between 0.5 and 3 being particularly preferred.
- binders or mixtures thereof may be used in conjunction with waxes or "heat solvents" to improve the reaction speed of the organic silver salt reduction at elevated temperatures.
- thermosensitive element preferably further contains a so-called toning agent known from thermography or photothermography.
- Suitable toning agents are the phthalimides and phthalazinones within the scope of the general formulae described in US 4,082,901. Further reference is made to the toning agents described in US 3,074,809, 3,446,648 and 3,844,797.
- Other particularly useful toning agents are the heterocyclic toner compounds of the benzoxazine dione or naphthoxazine dione type as disclosed in GB 1,439,478, US 3,951,660 and US 5,599,647.
- thermographic recording materials of the present invention In order to obtain improved shelf-life and reduced fogging, stabilizers and antifoggants may be incorporated into the thermographic recording materials of the present invention.
- the thermosensitive element preferably further contains at least one polycarboxylic acid and/or anhydride thereof in a molar percentage of at least 10 with respect to all the organic silver salt(s) present and in thermal working relationship therewith, with a molar percentage of at least 15 with respect to all the organic silver salt(s) being particularly preferred.
- the polycarboxylic acid may be aliphatic (saturated as well as unsaturated aliphatic and also cycloaliphatic) or an aromatic polycarboxylic acid. These acids may be substituted e.g. with alkyl, hydroxyl, nitro or halogen. They may be used in anhydride form or partially esterified on the condition that at least two free carboxylic acids remain or are available in the heat recording step.
- saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids containing at least 4 carbon atoms e.g.: succinic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, pimelic acid, suberic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, nonane-dicarboxylic acid, decane-dicarboxylic acid, undecane-dicarboxylic acid.
- Suitable unsaturated dicarboxylic acids are : maleic acid, citraconic acid, itaconic acid and aconitic acid.
- Suitable polycarboxylic acids are citric acid and derivatives thereof, acetonedicarboxylic acid, iso-citric acid and a-ketoglutaric acid.
- Preferred aromatic polycarboxylic acids are ortho-phthalic acid and 3-nitro-phthalic acid, tetrachlorophthalic acid, mellitic acid, pyromellitic acid and trimellitic acid and the anhydrides thereof.
- thermographic recording materials of the present invention may contain one or more surfactants, which may be anionic, non-ionic or cationic surfactants and/or one or more dispersants.
- the recording material may contain in addition to the ingredients mentioned above other additives such as antistatic agents, e.g. non-ionic antistatic agents including a fluorocarbon group as e.g. in F 3 C(CF 2 ) 6 CONH(CH 2 CH 2 O)-H, silicone oil, e.g. BAYSILONTM MA (from BAYER AG, GERMANY).
- antistatic agents e.g. non-ionic antistatic agents including a fluorocarbon group as e.g. in F 3 C(CF 2 ) 6 CONH(CH 2 CH 2 O)-H
- silicone oil e.g. BAYSILONTM MA (from BAYER AG, GERMANY).
- the photosensitive silver halide used in the present invention may be employed in a range of 0.1 to 100 mol percent; preferably, from 0.2 to 80 mol percent; particularly preferably from 0.3 to 50 mol percent; especially preferably from 0.5 to 35 mol %; and especially from 1 to 12 mol % of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt.
- the silver halide may be any photosensitive silver halide such as silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chloride, silver bromoiodide, silver chlorobromoiodide, silver chlorobromide etc.
- the silver halide may be in any form which is photosensitive including, but not limited to, cubic, orthorhombic, tabular, tetrahedral, octagonal etc. and may have epitaxial growth of crystals thereon.
- the silver halide used in the present invention may be employed without modification. However, it may be chemically sensitized with a chemical sensitizing agent such as a compound containing sulphur, selenium, tellurium etc., or a compound containing gold, platinum, palladium, iron, ruthenium, rhodium or iridium etc., a reducing agent such as a tin halide etc., or a combination thereof.
- a chemical sensitizing agent such as a compound containing sulphur, selenium, tellurium etc., or a compound containing gold, platinum, palladium, iron, ruthenium, rhodium or iridium etc.
- a reducing agent such as a tin halide etc.
- the photosensitive silver halide in the photo-addressable thermally developable element of the photothermographic recording material may be spectrally sensitized with a spectral sensitizer, optionally together with a supersensitizer, preferably to infra-red wavelengths.
- a spectral sensitizer optionally together with a supersensitizer, preferably to infra-red wavelengths.
- suitable spectral sensitizers including cyanine, merocyanine, styryl, hemicyanine, oxonol, hemioxonol and xanthene dyes optionally.
- Preferred cyanine dyes include those having a basic nucleus, such as a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazoline nucleus, a pyrroline nucleus, a pyridine nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a thiazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus and an imidazole nucleus.
- a basic nucleus such as a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazoline nucleus, a pyrroline nucleus, a pyridine nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a thiazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus and an imidazole nucleus.
- Preferred merocyanine dyes include those having not only the above described basic nuclei but also acid nuclei, such as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid nucleus, a thiazolinone nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus and a pyrazolone nucleus.
- acid nuclei such as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid nucleus, a thiazolinone nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus and a pyrazolone nucleus.
- imino groups or carboxyl groups are particularly preferred.
- the support for the thermosensitive element according to the present invention may be transparent or translucent and is a thin flexible carrier made of transparent resin film, e.g. made of a cellulose ester, cellulose triacetate, polypropylene, polycarbonate or polyester, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate.
- transparent resin film e.g. made of a cellulose ester, cellulose triacetate, polypropylene, polycarbonate or polyester, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate.
- the support may be in sheet, ribbon or web form and subbed if need be to improve the adherence to the thereon coated thermosensitive element.
- One or more backing layers may be provided to control physical properties such as curl and static.
- the thermosensitive element is provided with a protective layer to avoid local deformation of the thermosensitive element and to improve resistance against abrasion. It is preferred that no colorant is present in the protective layer and that any matte particles therein also do not contain colorant.
- the protective layer preferably comprises a binder, which may be solvent-soluble, solvent-dispersible, water-soluble or water-dispersible.
- a binder which may be solvent-soluble, solvent-dispersible, water-soluble or water-dispersible.
- solvent-soluble binders polycarbonates as described in EP-A 614 769 are particularly preferred.
- water-soluble or water-dispersible binders are preferred for the protective layer, as coating can be performed from an aqueous composition and mixing of the protective layer with the immediately adjacent layer can be avoided by using a solvent-soluble or solvent-dispersible binder in the immediately adjacent layer.
- the protective layer of the recording material may comprise a water-soluble binder, a water-dispersible binder or a mixture of a water-soluble and a water-soluble binder.
- the protective layer according to the present invention may be crosslinked.
- Crosslinking can be achieved by using crosslinking agents such as described in WO 95/12495.
- Solid or liquid lubricants or combinations thereof are suitable for improving the slip characteristics of the thermographic recording materials according to the present invention, with the thermomeltable particles disclosed in WO 94/11199 being preferred.
- the protective layer of the thermographic recording material according to the present invention may comprise a matting agent. Suitable matting agents are described in WO 94/11198 and optionally protrude from the protective layer.
- any layer of the recording material of the present invention may proceed by any known coating technique e.g. such as described in Modern Coating and Drying Technology, edited by Edward D. Cohen and Edgar B. Gutoff, (1992) VCH Publishers Inc. 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 909 New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.
- Thermographic imaging is carried out by the image-wise application of heat either in analogue fashion by direct exposure through an image of by reflection from an image, or in digital fashion pixel by pixel either by using an infra-red heat source, for example with a Nd-YAG laser or other infra-red laser, with a substantially light-insensitive thermographic material preferably containing an infra-red absorbing compound i.e. so-called heat mode, or by direct thermal imaging with a thermal head.
- an infra-red heat source for example with a Nd-YAG laser or other infra-red laser
- a substantially light-insensitive thermographic material preferably containing an infra-red absorbing compound i.e. so-called heat mode
- thermal printing image signals are converted into electric pulses and then through a driver circuit selectively transferred to a thermal printhead.
- the thermal printhead consists of microscopic heat resistor elements, which convert the electrical energy into heat via Joule effect.
- Such thermal printing heads may be used in contact or close proximity with the recording material.
- the operating temperature of common thermal printheads is in the range of 300 to 400°C and the heating time per picture element (pixel) may be less than 1.0ms, the pressure contact of the thermal printhead with the recording material being e.g. 200-500g/cm 2 to ensure a good transfer of heat.
- the image-wise heating of the recording material with the thermal printing heads may proceed through a contacting but removable resin sheet or web wherefrom during the heating no transfer of recording material can take place.
- Activation of the heating elements can be power-modulated or pulse-length modulated at constant power.
- the image-wise heating can be carried out such that heating elements not required to produce an image pixel generate an amount of heat (H e ) in accordance with the following formula: 0.5 H D ⁇ H e ⁇ H D wherein H D represents the minimum amount of heat required to cause visible image formation in the recording material.
- EP-A 654 355 discloses a method for making an image by imagewise heating by means of a thermal head having energizable heating elements, wherein the activation of the heating elements is executed duty cycled pulsewise.
- EP-A 622 217 discloses a method for making an image using a direct thermal imaging element producing improvements in continuous tone reproduction.
- Image-wise heating of the recording material can also be carried out using an electrically resistive ribbon incorporated into the material.
- Image- or pattern-wise heating of the recording material may also proceed by means of pixel-wise modulated ultra-sound, using e.g. an ultrasonic pixel printer as described e.g. in US-P 4,908,631.
- Photothermographic recording materials may be exposed with radiation of wavelength between an X-ray wavelength and a 5 microns wavelength with the image either being obtained by pixel-wise exposure with a finely focused light source, such as a CRT light source; a UV, visible or IR wavelength laser, such as a He/Ne-laser or an IR-laser diode, e.g. emitting at 780nm, 830nm or 850nm; or a light emitting diode, for example one emitting at 659nm; or by direct exposure to the object itself or an image therefrom with appropriate illumination e.g. with UV, visible or IR light.
- a finely focused light source such as a CRT light source
- a UV, visible or IR wavelength laser such as a He/Ne-laser or an IR-laser diode, e.g. emitting at 780nm, 830nm or 850nm
- a light emitting diode for example one
- any sort of heat source can be used that enables the recording materials to be uniformly heated to the development temperature in a time acceptable for the application concerned e.g. contact heating, radiative heating, microwave heating etc.
- thermographic recording materials of the present invention are for use in the production of transparencies for medical diagnostic applications operating with a light box.
- thermographic printing of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 the print head was separated from the imaging layer by a thin intermediate material contacted with a slipping layer of a separable 5mm thick polyethylene terephthalate ribbon coated successively with a subbing layer, heat-resistant layer and the slipping layer (anti-friction layer) giving a ribbon with a total thickness of 6mm.
- the printer was equipped with a thin film thermal head with a resolution of 300 dpi and was operated with a line time of 19ms (the line time being the time needed for printing one line). During this line time the print head received constant power.
- the average printing power being the total amount of electrical input energy during one line time divided by the line time and by the surface area of the heat-generating resistors was 1.6 mJ/dot being sufficient to obtain maximum optical density in each of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 and COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1.
- the images exhibits maximum densities of about 3.0 and minimum densities of about 0.26 measured through a visible filter with a MACBETHTM TR924 densitometer in the grey scale step corresponding to data levels of 64 and 0 respectively.
- the image tone of fresh prints made with the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 was assessed on the basis of the L*, a* and b* CIELAB-values.
- the a* and b* CIELAB-values of fresh prints of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 at optical densities, D, of 1.0 are summarized in table 2.
- thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 using a SUNTEST CPS apparatus from HERAEUS.
- the thermographic recording materials were exposed through a glass filter which removes infrared light with wavelengths above 700nm and ultraviolet light with wavelengths below 310nm to a light flux from a low pressure xenon lamp NXE 1500 of approximately 110kLux under ambient conditions during the 16h suntest and at a high relative humidity during 48h high humidity test.
- NXE 1500 approximately 110kLux under ambient conditions during the 16h suntest and at a high relative humidity during 48h high humidity test.
- Colour neutrality on the basis of CIELAB-values corresponds to a* and b* values of zero, with a negative a*-value indicating a greenish image-tone becoming greener as a* becomes more negative, a positive a*-value indicating a reddish image-tone becoming redder as a* becomes more positive, a negative b*-value indicating an increasingly bluer image-tone as b* becomes more negative and a positive b*-value indicating a yellowish image-tone becoming more yellow as b* becomes more positive.
- the image tone of elements of the image with a density of 1.0 have a stronger effect than the image tone of elements with lower or higher optical. Furthermore, the image tone generally becomes more neutral as the density increases.
- the CIELAB co-ordinates for an optical density of 1.0 are therefore critical in assessing the perceived image tone of an image.
- thermosensitive element in combination with a support containing COLORANT 01, similar CIELAB-a* and -b* values were obtained to that of the SCOPIX LT2B film and hence improved diagnostic capability in the coverage range of 2.09 to 16.8mg/m 2 .
- substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials containing COLORANTS 07, 08, 09 and 10 exhibited resistance to fading under 16h of simulated sunlight and 48h exposure at high humidities.
- the resultant CIELAB-a* and -b* values are a result of the intrinsic properties of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material combined with the colorant properties of the blue pigment in the support having a maximum absorption in the range of 590 to 640nm in combination with a second colorant having a maximum absorption in the binder used of 500 to 560nm.
- IMATION DRYVIEWTM Laser Imaging Film a photothermographic material based on organic silver salts and a reducing agent therefor and having a blue-pigmented support having CIELAB-L*, -a* and b* values of 85.48, -7.22 and -13.02 respectively and a Dvis of 0.174, with I.D. No. 98-0439-9800-8 and Emulsion No. 021635-018-A-005 for use before 10/1998, was printed with a DRYVIEWTM 8700 Laser Imager under standard DRYVIEWTM processing conditions to produce the thermographic recording material of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 2.
- a gelatine layer containing COLORANT 11 was applied to the side of the DRYVIEWTM photothermographic material opposite to that of the photo-addressable thermally developable element (thermosensitive element with photosensitive silver halide) at a COLORANT 11 coverage of 10 mg/m 2 to produce the photothermographic recording material of INVENTION EXAMPLE 14.
- the CIELAB-a* and -b* values obtained with this photothermographic recording material are given in table 3.
- Comparative example nr SECOND COLORANT CIELAB-values at D 1.0 number mg/m 2 a* b* 2 - - -1.0 -7.03
- the resultant CIELAB-a* and -b* values are a result of the intrinsic properties of the photothermographic recording material combined with the colorant properties of the blue pigment in the support having a maximum absorption in the range of 580 to 700nm in combination with a second colorant having a maximum absorption in gelatin of 657nm.
- thermosensitive element 0.315g/m 2 Surfactant Nr. 3 0.13g/m 2 formaldehyde 0.2g/m 2
- This thermosensitive element was then overcoated with a protective layer with the following composition: POLYVIOLTM WX48 20 2.258g/m 2 MICROACE TALC P3 0.039g/m 2 SERVOXYL VPDZ 3/100 0.075g/m 2 SERVOXYL VPAZ 100 0.070g/m 2 SYLOID 72 0.080g/m 2 RILANITTM GMS 0.119g/m 2 LEVASILTM VP AC 4055 0.750g/m 2 RESIMENETM AQ7550 0.351g/m 2 p-toluene sulfonic acid 0.035g/m 2 Surfactant Nr. 1 0.048g/m 2
- thermographic recording material containing different COLORANTS
- Table 4 for the COLORANT, coverage and binder used to produce the thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 15 to 18.
- the CIELAB-a* and -b* values obtained with these thermographic recording materials are given in table 5.
- the resultant CIELAB-a* and -b* values are a result of the intrinsic properties of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material combined with the colorant properties of the blue pigment in the support having a maximum absorption in the range of 585 to 640nm in combination with a second colorant having a maximum absorption in the binder used of 550 to 580nm.
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Description
- The present invention relates to thermographic recording materials with improved diagnostic capability.
- Thermal imaging or thermography is a recording process wherein images are generated by the use of thermal energy. In direct thermal thermography a visible image pattern is formed by image-wise heating of a recording material containing matter that by chemical or physical process changes colour or optical density. Such recording materials become photothermographic upon incorporating a photosensitive agent which after exposure to UV, visible or IR light is capable of catalyzing or participating in a thermographic process bringing about changes in colour or optical density.
- Examples of photothermographic materials are the so called "Dry Silver" photothermographic materials of the 3M Company, which are reviewed by D. A. Morgan in "Handbook of Imaging Science", edited by A. R. Diamond, page 43, published by Marcel Dekker in 1991.
- EP-A 889 355 discloses a thermographic recording material comprising a substantially colourless support and a thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent for the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, characterized in that a blue pigment or dye having an absorption maximum in the wavelength range from 550 to 700 nm is present in the thermosensitive element and/or any other layer on either side of the support which provides a background for viewing in transmission images produced with the thermographic recording material.
- US 5,783,380 discloses a thermally processable imaging element comprising: (1) a support; (2) a thermographic or photothermographic imaging layer on one side of the support; (3) a protective layer overlying the image-forming layer; said protective layer comprising: (A) a film forming binder; (B) a dye dispersed throughout said protective layer in an amount sufficient to impart a pre-selected color thereto; and (C) matte particles the color of the protective layer. No disclosure is made in US 5,783,380 regarding colorant in the support.
- EP-A 919 864 discloses a photothermographic element comprising at least one photosensitive layer on a support, wherein the support contains a dye of structure I: wherein M is a multi-valent metal atom; each of R1, R4, R5, R8, R9, R12, R13 and R16 independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group; each of R2, R3, R6, R7, R10, R11, R14 and R15 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxygroup; or one or more of the adjacent pairs R1 and R2, R2 and R3, R3 and R4, R5 and R6, R6 and R7, R7 and R8, R8 and R9, R9 and R10, R10 and R11, R11 and R12, R13 and R14, R14 and R15 and R15 and R16 taken together may represent the atoms necessary to form a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heteroaromatic ring; and wherein the support has a peak absorption between about 660 nm and about 800 nm.
- Imaging materials for medical applications are in general produced using a support with a particular blue pigment e.g. MACROLEX™ BLUE 3R from BAYER. The colour of such supports can be defined in terms of L*, a* and b* CIELAB-values which are determined by spectrophotometric measurements according to ASTM Norm E179-90 in a R(45/0) geometry with evaluation according to ASTM Norm E308-90. Representative supports used for medical imaging materials have CIELAB-a* values and -b* values given in the table below.
a* b* Dvis MEDICAL IMAGING MATERIAL SUPPORT 1 -7 -13.82 0.172 MEDICAL IMAGING MATERIAL SUPPORT 2 -7.22 -13.02 0.174 MEDICAL IMAGING MATERIAL SUPPORT 3 -6.86 -14.46 0.181 MEDICAL IMAGING MATERIAL SUPPORT 4 -7.92 -16.62 0.195 - The resolution of medical images, such as X-ray images, is of supreme importance in ensuring reliable diagnosis. It is desirable to improve further the diagnostic reliability of images produced with thermographic recording materials based on organic silver salts and reducing agents using a support with a particular blue pigment, whether produced by thermography or photothermography, thereby ensuring more reliable diagnosis.
- It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide substantially light-insensitive black and white thermographic recording materials whose prints enable more reliable diagnosis.
- It is therefore a second object of the present invention to provide black and white photothermographic recording materials whose prints enable more reliable diagnosis.
- Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the description hereinafter.
- It has been surprisingly found that the use of a blue-pigmented support such as used for conventional silver halide X-ray films does not provide an image with optimum diagnostic reliability, but that incorporation of at least two colorants which are not antihalation dyes one of which is in the support and the other is in the support or in any layer making up the thermographic recording material, while ensuring that the blue background necessary for preventing over-exposure of the eyes of the viewer upon viewing in transmission with a view-box and reducing light scattering is maintained, produces an image with improved diagnostic capability.
- The above mentioned objects are realized by a substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650nm and comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, said thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, characterized in that the substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorption at a wavelength between 450nm and 700nm; none of the at least two colorants is an antihalation dye; and at least one of the at least two colorants is incorporated in the support.
- A black and white monosheet photothermographic recording material is also provided according to the present invention having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650nm and comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element, said photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, characterized in that the black and white monosheet photothermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorptions at a wavelength between 450nm and 700nm; at least one of the at least two colorants is incorporated in the support and the other of said at least two colorants is incorporated in said thermosensitive element, in a protective layer, in a layer on the other side of said support to said thermosensitive element, in any other layer which is part of the thermographic recording material or in several layers thereof; and none of the at least two colorants has a maximum absorption at a wavelength within 30nm of the wavelength at which maximum spectral sensitivity of the photothermographic recording material is observed.
- A thermographic recording process is also provided according to the present invention comprising the steps of: (i) bringing an outermost layer of the above-mentioned thermographic recording material in proximity with a heat source; (ii) applying heat from the heat source imagewise to the recording material while maintaining proximity to the heat source to produce an image; and (iii) removing the recording material from the heat source.
- A photothermographic recording process is further provided according to the present invention comprising the steps of: (i) imagewise exposing the above-mentioned photothermographic recording material; (ii) bringing an outermost layer of the photothermographic recording material in proximity with a heat source; (iii) applying heat from the heat source under substantially water-free conditions to the photothermographic recording material while maintaining proximity to the heat source to produce an image; and (iv) removing the photothermographic recording material from the heat source.
- In a preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording process, according to the present invention, the heat source is a thermal head with a thin film thermal head being particularly preferred.
- The term colorant means dyes and pigments.
- The L*, a* and b* CIELAB-values define the colour of objects and are determined by spectrophotometric measurements according to ASTM Norm E179-90 in a R(45/0) geometry with evaluation according to ASTM Norm E308-90.
- The term alkyl means all variants possible for each number of carbon atoms in the alkyl group i.e. for three carbon atoms: n-propyl and isopropyl; for four carbon atoms: n-butyl, isobutyl and tertiary-butyl; for five carbon atoms: n-pentyl, 1,1-dimethylpropyl, 2,2-dimethylpropyl and 2-methyl-butyl etc.
- The term thermographic recording material includes both thermographic and photothermographic recording materials unless qualified by the expression substantially light-insensitive.
- By substantially light-insensitive is meant not intentionally light sensitive.
- The term antihalation means having the function of minimizing reflection of incident light from an interface in a material, e.g. from the base into the emulsion of a photographic material, during image-wise exposure. In the case of a material exposed to laser light, this means at the wavelength of the laser light.
- The descriptor aqueous in the term aqueous medium for the purposes of the present invention includes mixtures of water-miscible organic solvents such as alcohols e.g. methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, butanol, iso-amyl alcohol etc.; glycols e.g. ethylene glycol; glycerine; N-methyl pyrrolidone; methoxypropanol; and ketones e.g. 2-propanone and 2-butanone etc. with water in which water constitutes more than 50% by weight of the aqueous medium with 65% by weight of the aqueous medium being preferred and 80% by weight of the aqueous being particularly preferred.
- By the term "heat solvent" in this invention is meant a non-hydrolyzable organic material which is in a solid state in the recording layer at temperatures below 50°C, but becomes a plasticizer for the recording layer when thermally heated and/or a liquid solvent for the organic silver salt or the reducing agent.
- Heating in a substantially water-free condition as used herein, means heating at a temperature of 80 to 250°C. The term "substantially water-free condition" means that the reaction system is approximately in equilibrium with water in the air, and water for inducing or promoting the reaction is not particularly or positively supplied from the exterior to the element. Such a condition is described in T.H. James, "The Theory of the Photographic Process", Fourth Edition, Macmillan 1977, page 374.
- Thermographic recording materials with improved diagnostic capability have been realized according to the present invention by the incorporation of two or more colorants. In the case of substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials one of these colorants is incorporated into the support and the other may be variously incorporated into the support or in one or more of the layers of the thermographic recording material e.g. in the thermosensitive element, a protective layer, a layer on the other side of the support to the thermosensitive element, in any other layer which is part of the thermographic recording material or in several layers thereof. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording materials according to present invention the second colorant is in the thermosensitive element and/or a layer on the other side of the support to the thermosensitive element.
- It is preferred that the colorants used in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention do not react with other ingredients in whichever layer they are present in and do not fade significantly under the exposure in light boxes such as those used for the viewing of diagnostic transparencies.
- In a preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording material of the present invention, two colorants are used having maximum absorptions in the ranges 500 to 560nm and 580 to 700nm respectively. In another preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording material of the present invention, two colorants are used having maximum absorptions in the ranges 550 to 580nm and 585 to 700nm respectively. In yet another preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording material of the present invention, two colorants are used having maximum absorptions in the ranges 580 to 640nm and 650 to 670nm respectively.
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- In a still further preferred embodiment of the thermographic recording material of the present invention, the two or more colorants are selected such that at an image optical density of 1.0, the thermographic recording material has a CIELAB-a* value in the range of -3.75 to -5.75 and a CIELAB-b* value in the range of -6.3 to -8.3 as determined by spectrophotometric measurements according to ASTM Norm E179-90 in a R(45/0) geometry with evaluation according to ASTM Norm E308-90.
- The choice of colorants will depend upon the image colour of the thermographic recording material without the addition of such colorants, which will vary with thermographic recording material composition. The colorants may be dyes or pigments or mixtures thereof. In the INVENTION EXAMPLES included herewith, the following colorants are shown to be useful in achieving the required diagnostic improvement while having a maximum absorption for visible light in the range of 570 to 650nm:
- COLORANT 01, MACROLEX™ BLUE 3R from BAYER
- COLORANT 02:
- COLORANT 03:
- COLORANT 04:
- COLORANT 05:
- COLORANT 06:
- COLORANT 07. HOSTAPERM™ ROSA E02 from HOECHST:
- COLORANT 08, PERMANENT CARMINE FBBO2 from HOECHST:
- COLORANT 09, LITHOL RUBIN D4595:
- COLORANT 10, MAGENTA CINQUASIA RT355D:
- COLORANT 11:
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- In a preferred embodiment of the photothermographic recording material of the present invention, the support is exclusive of of a dye of structure (I): wherein M is a multi-valent metal atom; each of R1, R4, R5, R8, R9, R12, R13 and R16 independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group; each of R2, R3, R6, R7, R10, R11, R14 and R15 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxygroup; or one or more of the adjacent pairs R1 and R2, R2 and R3, R3 and R4, R5 and R6, R6 and R7, R7 and R8, R8 and R9, R9 and R10, R10 and R11, R11 and R12, R13 and R14, R14 and R15 and R15 and R16 taken together may represent the atoms necessary to form a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heteroaromatic ring.
- The thermosensitive element, according to the present invention, contains a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder. The element may comprise a layer system in which the ingredients may be dispersed in different layers, with the proviso that the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt is in reactive association with the reducing agent i.e. during the thermal development process the reducing agent must be present in such a way that it is able to diffuse to the particle of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt so that reduction to silver can occur.
- In a preferred embodiment of the present invention the thermosensitive element further contains photosensitive silver halide, making the thermosensitive element photo-addressable and thermally developable and the thermographic recording material photothermographic.
- Preferred organic silver salts for use in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention are substantially light-insensitive silver salts of an organic carboxylic acid. Preferred substantially light-insensitive silver salts of an organic carboxylic acid are silver salts of aliphatic carboxylic acids, known as fatty acids, with at least 12 carbon atoms, e.g. silver laurate, silver palmitate, silver stearate, silver hydroxystearate, silver oleate and silver behenate. Other silver salts of an organic carboxylic acid as described in GB-P 1,439,478, e.g. silver benzoate, may likewise be used to produce a thermally developable silver image. Combinations of different silver salts of organic carboxylic acids, also as mixed crystals, may also be used in the present invention, as disclosed in unpublished European Patent Application EP98201964.8.
- Organic silver salts may be dispersed by standard dispersion techniques e.g. using ball mills, bead mills, microfluidizers, ultrasonic apparatuses, rotor stator mixers etc. have been found to be useful in this regard.
- Suitable organic reducing agents for the reduction of mixed crystals of two or more organic silver salts are organic compounds containing at least one active hydrogen atom linked to O, N or C, such as is the case with, aromatic di- and tri-hydroxy compounds; aminophenols; METOL™; p-phenylene-diamines; alkoxynaphthols, e.g. 4-methoxy-1-naphthol described in US-P 3,094,41; pyrazolidin-3-one type reducing agents, e.g. PHENIDONE™; pyrazolin-5-ones; indan-1,3-dione derivatives; hydroxytetrone acids; hydroxytetronimides; hydroxylamine derivatives such as for example described in US-P 4,082,901; hydrazine derivatives; and reductones e.g. ascorbic acid; see also US-P 3,074,809, 3,080,254, 3,094,417 and 3,887,378.
- 1,2-dihydroxybenzene derivatives, such as catechol, 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl) propionic acid, 1,2-dihydroxybenzoic acid, gallic acid and esters e.g. methyl gallate, ethyl gallate, propyl gallate, tannic acid, and 3,4-dihydroxy-benzoic acid esters are preferred, with those described in EP-B 692 733 and EP-A 903 625 being particularly preferred. In another preferred embodiment of the present invention the thermosensitive element contains a 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl compound in which a benzene ring substituted with any group in the 1-position is further substituted with hydroxy-groups in the 3- and 4-positions, the 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl compound being preferably selected from the group consisting of gallic acid derivatives, gallates, ethyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate, butyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate and 3,4-dihydroxybenzonitrile.
- Combinations of reducing agents may also be used that on heating become reactive partners in the reduction of the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, or mixtures or mixed crystals of two or more organic silver salts. For example, combinations of reducing agents with sulfonamidophenols are described in the periodical Research Disclosure, February 1979, item 17842, in US-P 4,360,581 and 4,782,004, and in EP-A 423 891 and combinations of sterically hindered phenols with sulfonyl hydrazide reducing agents such as disclosed in US-P 5,464,738; trityl hydrazides and formyl-phenyl-hydrazides such as disclosed in US-P 5,496,695; trityl hydrazides and formyl-phenyl-hydrazides with diverse auxiliary reducing agents such as disclosed in US-P 5,545,505, US-P 5.545.507 and US-P 5,558,983; acrylonitrile compounds as disclosed in US-P 5,545,515 and US-P 5,635,339; and 2-substituted malonodialdehyde compounds as disclosed in US-P 5,654,130. Organic reducing metal salts, e.g. stannous stearate, have also been used in such reducing agent combinations, as disclosed in US-P 3,460,946 and 3,547,648, as have sterically hindered phenols and bisphenols, as described in US-P 4,001,026 and US-P 3,547,648 respectively.
- The film-forming binder of the thermosensitive element may be all kinds of natural, modified natural or synthetic resins or mixtures of such resins, in which the substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt or mixed crystals thereof can be dispersed homogeneously either in aqueous or solvent media: e.g. cellulose derivatives such as ethylcellulose, cellulose esters, e.g. cellulose nitrate, carboxymethylcellulose, starch ethers, galactomannan, polymers derived from α,β-ethylenically unsaturated compounds such as polyvinyl chloride, after-chlorinated polyvinyl chloride, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride, copolymers of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate, polyvinyl acetate and partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetals that are made from polyvinyl alcohol as starting material in which only a part of the repeating vinyl alcohol units may have reacted with an aldehyde, preferably polyvinyl butyral, copolymers of acrylonitrile and acrylamide, polyacrylic acid esters, polymethacrylic acid esters, polystyrene and polyethylene or mixtures thereof.
- Suitable water-soluble film-forming binders for use in thermographic recording materials according to the present invention are: polyvinyl alcohol, polyacrylamide, polymethacrylamide, polyacrylic acid, polymethacrylic acid, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyethyleneglycol, proteinaceous binders such as gelatin, modified gelatins such as phthaloyl gelatin, polysaccharides, such as starch, gum arabic and dextran and water-soluble cellulose derivatives. A preferred water-soluble binder for use in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention is gelatin.
- Preferred water-dispersible binders for use according to the present invention are water-dispersible film-forming polymers with covalently bonded ionic groups selected from the group consisting of sulfonate, sulfinate, carboxylate, phosphate, quaternary ammonium, tertiary sulfonium and quaternary phosphonium groups. Further preferred water-dispersible binders for use according to the present invention are water-dispersible film-forming polymers with covalently bonded moieties with one or more acid groups. Water-dispersible binders with crosslinkable groups, e.g. epoxy groups, aceto-acetoxy groups and crosslinkable double bonds are also preferred. Particularly preferred water-dispersible binders for use in the thermographic recording materials of the present invention are polymer latexes.
- As the binder to organic silver salt weight ratio decreases the gradation of the image increasing. Binder to organic silver salt weight ratios of 0.2 to 6 are preferred with weight ratios between 0.5 and 3 being particularly preferred.
- The above mentioned binders or mixtures thereof may be used in conjunction with waxes or "heat solvents" to improve the reaction speed of the organic silver salt reduction at elevated temperatures.
- In order to obtain a neutral black image tone in the higher densities and neutral grey in the lower densities, the thermosensitive element preferably further contains a so-called toning agent known from thermography or photothermography.
- Suitable toning agents are the phthalimides and phthalazinones within the scope of the general formulae described in US 4,082,901. Further reference is made to the toning agents described in US 3,074,809, 3,446,648 and 3,844,797. Other particularly useful toning agents are the heterocyclic toner compounds of the benzoxazine dione or naphthoxazine dione type as disclosed in GB 1,439,478, US 3,951,660 and US 5,599,647.
- In order to obtain improved shelf-life and reduced fogging, stabilizers and antifoggants may be incorporated into the thermographic recording materials of the present invention.
- According to the recording material of the present invention the thermosensitive element preferably further contains at least one polycarboxylic acid and/or anhydride thereof in a molar percentage of at least 10 with respect to all the organic silver salt(s) present and in thermal working relationship therewith, with a molar percentage of at least 15 with respect to all the organic silver salt(s) being particularly preferred. The polycarboxylic acid may be aliphatic (saturated as well as unsaturated aliphatic and also cycloaliphatic) or an aromatic polycarboxylic acid. These acids may be substituted e.g. with alkyl, hydroxyl, nitro or halogen. They may be used in anhydride form or partially esterified on the condition that at least two free carboxylic acids remain or are available in the heat recording step.
- Particularly suitable are saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acids containing at least 4 carbon atoms, e.g.: succinic acid, glutaric acid, adipic acid, pimelic acid, suberic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, nonane-dicarboxylic acid, decane-dicarboxylic acid, undecane-dicarboxylic acid.
- Suitable unsaturated dicarboxylic acids are : maleic acid, citraconic acid, itaconic acid and aconitic acid. Suitable polycarboxylic acids are citric acid and derivatives thereof, acetonedicarboxylic acid, iso-citric acid and a-ketoglutaric acid.
- Preferred aromatic polycarboxylic acids are ortho-phthalic acid and 3-nitro-phthalic acid, tetrachlorophthalic acid, mellitic acid, pyromellitic acid and trimellitic acid and the anhydrides thereof.
- Surfactants and dispersants aid the dispersion of ingredients or reactants which are insoluble in the particular dispersion medium. The thermographic recording materials of the present invention may contain one or more surfactants, which may be anionic, non-ionic or cationic surfactants and/or one or more dispersants.
- The recording material may contain in addition to the ingredients mentioned above other additives such as antistatic agents, e.g. non-ionic antistatic agents including a fluorocarbon group as e.g. in F3C(CF2)6CONH(CH2CH2O)-H, silicone oil, e.g. BAYSILON™ MA (from BAYER AG, GERMANY).
- The photosensitive silver halide used in the present invention may be employed in a range of 0.1 to 100 mol percent; preferably, from 0.2 to 80 mol percent; particularly preferably from 0.3 to 50 mol percent; especially preferably from 0.5 to 35 mol %; and especially from 1 to 12 mol % of substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt.
- The silver halide may be any photosensitive silver halide such as silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chloride, silver bromoiodide, silver chlorobromoiodide, silver chlorobromide etc. The silver halide may be in any form which is photosensitive including, but not limited to, cubic, orthorhombic, tabular, tetrahedral, octagonal etc. and may have epitaxial growth of crystals thereon.
- The silver halide used in the present invention may be employed without modification. However, it may be chemically sensitized with a chemical sensitizing agent such as a compound containing sulphur, selenium, tellurium etc., or a compound containing gold, platinum, palladium, iron, ruthenium, rhodium or iridium etc., a reducing agent such as a tin halide etc., or a combination thereof. The details of these procedures are described in T. H. James, "The Theory of the Photographic Process", Fourth Edition, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., New York (1977), Chapter 5, pages 149 to 169.
- The photosensitive silver halide in the photo-addressable thermally developable element of the photothermographic recording material, according to the present invention, may be spectrally sensitized with a spectral sensitizer, optionally together with a supersensitizer, preferably to infra-red wavelengths. Various known dyes are suitable spectral sensitizers including cyanine, merocyanine, styryl, hemicyanine, oxonol, hemioxonol and xanthene dyes optionally. Preferred cyanine dyes include those having a basic nucleus, such as a thiazoline nucleus, an oxazoline nucleus, a pyrroline nucleus, a pyridine nucleus, an oxazole nucleus, a thiazole nucleus, a selenazole nucleus and an imidazole nucleus. Preferred merocyanine dyes include those having not only the above described basic nuclei but also acid nuclei, such as a thiohydantoin nucleus, a rhodanine nucleus, an oxazolidinedione nucleus, a thiazolidinedione nucleus, a barbituric acid nucleus, a thiazolinone nucleus, a malononitrile nucleus and a pyrazolone nucleus. Of the above described cyanine and merocyanine dyes, those having imino groups or carboxyl groups are particularly preferred.
- The support for the thermosensitive element according to the present invention may be transparent or translucent and is a thin flexible carrier made of transparent resin film, e.g. made of a cellulose ester, cellulose triacetate, polypropylene, polycarbonate or polyester, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate.
- The support may be in sheet, ribbon or web form and subbed if need be to improve the adherence to the thereon coated thermosensitive element. One or more backing layers may be provided to control physical properties such as curl and static.
- According to a preferred embodiment of the recording material, according to the present invention, the thermosensitive element is provided with a protective layer to avoid local deformation of the thermosensitive element and to improve resistance against abrasion. It is preferred that no colorant is present in the protective layer and that any matte particles therein also do not contain colorant.
- The protective layer preferably comprises a binder, which may be solvent-soluble, solvent-dispersible, water-soluble or water-dispersible. Among the solvent-soluble binders polycarbonates as described in EP-A 614 769 are particularly preferred. However, water-soluble or water-dispersible binders are preferred for the protective layer, as coating can be performed from an aqueous composition and mixing of the protective layer with the immediately adjacent layer can be avoided by using a solvent-soluble or solvent-dispersible binder in the immediately adjacent layer.
- According to an embodiment of the present invention the protective layer of the recording material may comprise a water-soluble binder, a water-dispersible binder or a mixture of a water-soluble and a water-soluble binder.
- The protective layer according to the present invention may be crosslinked. Crosslinking can be achieved by using crosslinking agents such as described in WO 95/12495.
- Solid or liquid lubricants or combinations thereof are suitable for improving the slip characteristics of the thermographic recording materials according to the present invention, with the thermomeltable particles disclosed in WO 94/11199 being preferred.
- The protective layer of the thermographic recording material according to the present invention may comprise a matting agent. Suitable matting agents are described in WO 94/11198 and optionally protrude from the protective layer.
- The coating of any layer of the recording material of the present invention may proceed by any known coating technique e.g. such as described in Modern Coating and Drying Technology, edited by Edward D. Cohen and Edgar B. Gutoff, (1992) VCH Publishers Inc. 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 909 New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.
- Thermographic imaging is carried out by the image-wise application of heat either in analogue fashion by direct exposure through an image of by reflection from an image, or in digital fashion pixel by pixel either by using an infra-red heat source, for example with a Nd-YAG laser or other infra-red laser, with a substantially light-insensitive thermographic material preferably containing an infra-red absorbing compound i.e. so-called heat mode, or by direct thermal imaging with a thermal head.
- In thermal printing image signals are converted into electric pulses and then through a driver circuit selectively transferred to a thermal printhead. The thermal printhead consists of microscopic heat resistor elements, which convert the electrical energy into heat via Joule effect. Such thermal printing heads may be used in contact or close proximity with the recording material. The operating temperature of common thermal printheads is in the range of 300 to 400°C and the heating time per picture element (pixel) may be less than 1.0ms, the pressure contact of the thermal printhead with the recording material being e.g. 200-500g/cm2 to ensure a good transfer of heat.
- In order to avoid direct contact of the thermal printing heads with the outermost layer on the same side of the support as the thermosensitive element when this outermost layer is not a protective layer, the image-wise heating of the recording material with the thermal printing heads may proceed through a contacting but removable resin sheet or web wherefrom during the heating no transfer of recording material can take place.
- Activation of the heating elements can be power-modulated or pulse-length modulated at constant power. The image-wise heating can be carried out such that heating elements not required to produce an image pixel generate an amount of heat (He) in accordance with the following formula: 0.5 HD < He < HD wherein HD represents the minimum amount of heat required to cause visible image formation in the recording material.
- EP-A 654 355 discloses a method for making an image by imagewise heating by means of a thermal head having energizable heating elements, wherein the activation of the heating elements is executed duty cycled pulsewise. EP-A 622 217 discloses a method for making an image using a direct thermal imaging element producing improvements in continuous tone reproduction.
- Image-wise heating of the recording material can also be carried out using an electrically resistive ribbon incorporated into the material. Image- or pattern-wise heating of the recording material may also proceed by means of pixel-wise modulated ultra-sound, using e.g. an ultrasonic pixel printer as described e.g. in US-P 4,908,631.
- Photothermographic recording materials, according to the present invention, may be exposed with radiation of wavelength between an X-ray wavelength and a 5 microns wavelength with the image either being obtained by pixel-wise exposure with a finely focused light source, such as a CRT light source; a UV, visible or IR wavelength laser, such as a He/Ne-laser or an IR-laser diode, e.g. emitting at 780nm, 830nm or 850nm; or a light emitting diode, for example one emitting at 659nm; or by direct exposure to the object itself or an image therefrom with appropriate illumination e.g. with UV, visible or IR light.
- For the thermal development of image-wise exposed photothermographic recording materials, according to the present invention, any sort of heat source can be used that enables the recording materials to be uniformly heated to the development temperature in a time acceptable for the application concerned e.g. contact heating, radiative heating, microwave heating etc.
- The thermographic recording materials of the present invention are for use in the production of transparencies for medical diagnostic applications operating with a light box.
- The invention is illustrated hereinafter by way of invention examples and comparative examples. The percentages and ratios given in these examples are by weight unless otherwise indicated. The ingredients used in the invention and comparative examples, other than those mentioned above, are:
- for the thermosensitive element:
- organic silver salts:
- AgB =
- silver behenate;
- the binders:
- B79 =
- BUTVAR™ B79, a polyvinyl butyral from MONSANTO;
- GEL01 =
- type 7598, a calcium-free gelatin from AGFA-GEVAERT GELATINEFABRIEK vorm. KOEPFF & SÖHNE;
- GEL02 =
- type 16096, gelatin from AGFA-GEVAERT GELATINEFABRIEK vorm. KOEPFF & SÖHNE;
- GEL03 =
- type 17881, a calcium-free gelatin from AGFA-GEVAERT GELATINEFABRIEK vorm. KOEPFF & SÖHNE;
- LATEX 01
- = a latex terpolymer consisting of 43.25% butyl acrylate, 54.25% styrene; and 2.5% potassium salt of N-[sulfobenzamido)-oxo-decyl]methacrylamide;
- the reducing agent:
- R01 =
- ethyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate;
- R02 =
- 3,4-dihydroxybenzonitrile;
- the toning agents:
- T01 =
- 7-(ethylcarbonato)-benzo[e][1,3]oxazine-2,4-dione;
- T02 =
- benzo[e][1,3]oxazine-2,4-dione;
- T03 =
- phthalazinone;
- the surfactants:
- Surfactant Nr. 1
- = HOSTAPAL™ B, supplied as a 50% concentrate of a sodium trisalkylphenylpolyethyleneglycol(EO 7-8)sulphate by HOECHST;
- Surfactant Nr. 2 =
- ammonium alkyl-phenylsulfonate produced from MARLON™ A-365, of a sodium alkylphenyl-sulfonate from HÜLS;
- Surfactant Nr. 3
- = hexadecyl-dimethylammonio-acetic acid;
- the stabilizers:
- S01 =
- adipic acid;
- S02 =
- tetrachlorophthalic acid anhydride;
- S03 =
- benzotriazole; and
- the silicone oil:
- BAYSILON™ MA,
- a polydimethylsiloxane from BAYER;
- organic silver salts:
- and in the protective layer:
- POLYVIOL™ WX48 20, a polyvinylalcohol from WACKER CHEMIE;
- RILANIT™ GMS, a glycerine monotallow acid ester, from HENKEL AG
- MICROACE TALC P3, an Indian talc from NIPPON TALC;
- SERVOXYL™ VPAZ 100 = a mixture of monolauryl and dilauryl phosphate, from SERVO DELDEN B.V.;
- SERVOXYL™ VPDZ 3/100 = a mono[isotridecyl polyglycolether (3 EO)] phosphate, from SERVO DELDEN B.V.;
- LEVASIL™ VP AC 4055, a 15% aqueous dispersion of colloidal silica with acid groups predominantly neutralized with sodium ions and a specific surface are of 500 m2/g, from BAYER AG has been converted into the ammonium salt;
- RESIMENE™ AQ7550, a high solids, partially methylated melamine formaldehyde crosslinking resin as a 78% aqueous solution from MONSANTO.
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- A subbed 175µm thick polyethylene terephthalate support pigmented with COLORANT 1 to give the CIELAB-L*, a* and -b* values of 83.81, - 7.92 and -16.62 respectively and a visible density of 0.195 was doctor blade-coated with a composition containing 2-butanone as solvent/dispersing medium so as to obtain thereon, after drying, the thermosensitive elements of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 not containing a colorant in the thermosensitive element and the thermosensitive elements of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 with the COLORANT specified in the concentration specified and with the compositions summarized in table 1 below:
Comparative example nr. COLORANT AgB g/m2 B79 g/m2 Oil g/m2 T01 g/m2 T02 g/m2 R01 g/m2 S01 g/m2 S02 g/m2 S03 g/m2 number mg/m2 1 - - 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 Invention example nr. 1 02 2.09 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 2 07 2.09 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 3 07 8.4 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 4 07 12.6 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 5 08 2.09 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 6 08 4.2 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 7 08 8.4 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 8 09 4.2 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 9 09 8.4 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 10 09 12.6 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 11 10 8.4 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 12 10 12.6 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 13 10 16.8 4.105 12.32 0.036 0.224 0.115 0.827 0.293 0.130 0.108 - During the thermographic printing of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13, the print head was separated from the imaging layer by a thin intermediate material contacted with a slipping layer of a separable 5mm thick polyethylene terephthalate ribbon coated successively with a subbing layer, heat-resistant layer and the slipping layer (anti-friction layer) giving a ribbon with a total thickness of 6mm.
- The printer was equipped with a thin film thermal head with a resolution of 300 dpi and was operated with a line time of 19ms (the line time being the time needed for printing one line). During this line time the print head received constant power. The average printing power, being the total amount of electrical input energy during one line time divided by the line time and by the surface area of the heat-generating resistors was 1.6 mJ/dot being sufficient to obtain maximum optical density in each of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 and COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1.
- The images exhibits maximum densities of about 3.0 and minimum densities of about 0.26 measured through a visible filter with a MACBETH™ TR924 densitometer in the grey scale step corresponding to data levels of 64 and 0 respectively.
- The diagnostic acceptance of prints of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 was evaluated in comparison with a state of the art wet printing system SCOPIX™ LR3300 (printer) and SCOPIX™ LT2B (film) from AGFA-GEVAERT N.V. at several hospitals in Belgium. A statistical robust pair analysis of the judgement on 7 parameters was carried out on the hard copies of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1 and the SCOPIX films. Validation by 4 radiologists for different modalities and 25 studies per modality. The diagnostic confidence was comparable for all studies. The radiologists perceived images using the SCOPIX™ LT2B film to be crisper than images using the thermographic recording materials of the type of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 1, although there was no difference in measured CTF-sharpness. This indicates the benefit of the blue tone of the SCOPIX film for an optical density of 1.0 with CIELAB-a* and -b* values of -4.7 and -8.6 respectively as compared with the CIELAB-L*, -a* and -b* values for the support of 85.64, -7.00 and -13.82 respectively.
- The image tone of fresh prints made with the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 was assessed on the basis of the L*, a* and b* CIELAB-values. The a* and b* CIELAB-values of fresh prints of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 at optical densities, D, of 1.0 are summarized in table 2.
- The light stability tests were carried out on substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 using a SUNTEST CPS apparatus from HERAEUS. The thermographic recording materials were exposed through a glass filter which removes infrared light with wavelengths above 700nm and ultraviolet light with wavelengths below 310nm to a light flux from a low pressure xenon lamp NXE 1500 of approximately 110kLux under ambient conditions during the 16h suntest and at a high relative humidity during 48h high humidity test. The results are given in table 2.
Comparative example nr COLORANT CIELAB-values at D = 1.0 light stability number λmax [nm] mg/m2 a* b* 16h in sun 48h exposure at high humidity 1 - - - -4.7 -6.17 - - Invention example nr 1 02 542 2.09 -3.04 -7.1 moderate bad 2 07 538 2.09 -4.4 -7.7 good good 3 07 538 8.4 -3.9 -6.9 good good 4 07 538 12.6 -3.2 -7.7 good good 5 08 - 2.09 -4.4 -6.7 good good 6 08 - 4.2 -4.2 -7 good good 7 08 - 8.4 -3.3 -7.5 good good 8 09 - 4.2 -4.4 -6.3 good good 9 09 - 8.4 -4.2 -6.4 good good 10 09 - 12.6 -3.9 -6.9 good good 11 10 - 8.4 -4.44 -6.21 good good 12 10 - 12.6 -4.02 -6.29 good good 13 10 16.8 -3.76 -6.96 good good - Colour neutrality on the basis of CIELAB-values corresponds to a* and b* values of zero, with a negative a*-value indicating a greenish image-tone becoming greener as a* becomes more negative, a positive a*-value indicating a reddish image-tone becoming redder as a* becomes more positive, a negative b*-value indicating an increasingly bluer image-tone as b* becomes more negative and a positive b*-value indicating a yellowish image-tone becoming more yellow as b* becomes more positive.
- In terms of the visual perception of an image as a whole, the image tone of elements of the image with a density of 1.0 have a stronger effect than the image tone of elements with lower or higher optical. Furthermore, the image tone generally becomes more neutral as the density increases. The CIELAB co-ordinates for an optical density of 1.0 are therefore critical in assessing the perceived image tone of an image.
- With all of the COLORANTS 02, 07, 08, 09 and 10 in the thermosensitive element in combination with a support containing COLORANT 01, similar CIELAB-a* and -b* values were obtained to that of the SCOPIX LT2B film and hence improved diagnostic capability in the coverage range of 2.09 to 16.8mg/m2. Only substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials containing COLORANTS 07, 08, 09 and 10 exhibited resistance to fading under 16h of simulated sunlight and 48h exposure at high humidities. The resultant CIELAB-a* and -b* values are a result of the intrinsic properties of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material combined with the colorant properties of the blue pigment in the support having a maximum absorption in the range of 590 to 640nm in combination with a second colorant having a maximum absorption in the binder used of 500 to 560nm.
- IMATION DRYVIEW™ Laser Imaging Film, a photothermographic material based on organic silver salts and a reducing agent therefor and having a blue-pigmented support having CIELAB-L*, -a* and b* values of 85.48, -7.22 and -13.02 respectively and a Dvis of 0.174, with I.D. No. 98-0439-9800-8 and Emulsion No. 021635-018-A-005 for use before 10/1998, was printed with a DRYVIEW™ 8700 Laser Imager under standard DRYVIEW™ processing conditions to produce the thermographic recording material of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 2. A gelatine layer containing COLORANT 11 was applied to the side of the DRYVIEW™ photothermographic material opposite to that of the photo-addressable thermally developable element (thermosensitive element with photosensitive silver halide) at a COLORANT 11 coverage of 10 mg/m2 to produce the photothermographic recording material of INVENTION EXAMPLE 14. The CIELAB-a* and -b* values obtained with this photothermographic recording material are given in table 3.
Comparative example nr SECOND COLORANT CIELAB-values at D = 1.0 number mg/m2 a* b* 2 - - -1.0 -7.03 Invention example nr. 14 11 10 -3.95 -8.9 - These results demonstrate that addition of COLORANT 11 to a print produced with the photothermographic recording material of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 2 with a blue-pigmented support to a coverage of 10mg/m2 produces a photothermographic recording material with CIELAB-a* and -b* values for an image density of 1.0 comparable with those of the SCOPIX LT2B film, thereby enhancing the diagnostic capability of the photothermographic recording material of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 2. The resultant CIELAB-a* and -b* values are a result of the intrinsic properties of the photothermographic recording material combined with the colorant properties of the blue pigment in the support having a maximum absorption in the range of 580 to 700nm in combination with a second colorant having a maximum absorption in gelatin of 657nm.
- A subbed 175µm thick polyethylene terephthalate support pigmented with COLORANT 01 to give the CIELAB-L*, a* and -b* values of 84.91, -6.86 and -14.46 respectively and a visible density of 0.181 was doctor blade-coated with an aqueous dispersion so as to obtain thereon, after drying, the thermosensitive elements of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 3 and INVENTION EXAMPLES 15 to 18 with the composition given below:
AgB 4.92g/m2 GEL03 3.25g/m2 LATEX01 0.74g/m2 R02 1.037g/m2 T01 0.139g/m2 T03 0.35g/m2 Surfactant Nr. 2 0.315g/m2 Surfactant Nr. 3 0.13g/m2 formaldehyde 0.2g/m2 POLYVIOL™ WX48 20 2.258g/m2 MICROACE TALC P3 0.039g/m2 SERVOXYL VPDZ 3/100 0.075g/m2 SERVOXYL VPAZ 100 0.070g/m2 SYLOID 72 0.080g/m2 RILANIT™ GMS 0.119g/m2 LEVASIL™ VP AC 4055 0.750g/m2 RESIMENE™ AQ7550 0.351g/m2 p-toluene sulfonic acid 0.035g/m2 Surfactant Nr. 1 0.048g/m2 - 4 sheets of the resulting substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials were printed as described for the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 1 to 13 and COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 2 except that the protective layer was in direct contact with the thermal head.
- Finally layers containing different COLORANTS were applied to the side of the resulting substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material opposite to that of the thermosensitive element, see table 4 for the COLORANT, coverage and binder used to produce the thermographic recording materials of INVENTION EXAMPLES 15 to 18.
Comparative example nr. COLORANT GEL01 g/m2 B79 g/m2 number mg/m2 3 - - - - Invention example nr. 15 06 60 1.76 - 16 03 5 - 1.0 17 04 5 - 1.0 18 05 5 - 1.0 Comparative example nr COLORANT CIELAB-values at D = 1.0 number mg/m2 a* b* 3 - - -5.14 -1.54 Invention example nr 15 06 60 -4.59 -4.0 16 03 5 -3.53 -7.21 17 04 5 -3.06 -5.09 18 05 5 -3.27 -6.83 - These results demonstrate that addition of COLORANTS 3, 4, 5 and 6 to a print produced with the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 3 with a blue-pigmented support to coating weights of 5 to 60mg/m2, depending upon the choice of second COLORANT, produces a substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material with CIELAB-a* and -b* values for an image density of 1.0 comparable with those of the SCOPIX LT2B film, thereby enhancing the diagnostic capability of the thermographic recording material of COMPARATIVE EXAMPLE 3. The resultant CIELAB-a* and -b* values are a result of the intrinsic properties of the substantially light-insensitive thermographic recording material combined with the colorant properties of the blue pigment in the support having a maximum absorption in the range of 585 to 640nm in combination with a second colorant having a maximum absorption in the binder used of 550 to 580nm.
- Having described in detail preferred embodiments of the current invention, it will now be apparent to those skilled in the art that numerous modifications can be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.
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- A substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650nm and comprising a support and a thermosensitive element, said thermosensitive element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith and a binder, characterized in that said substantially light-insensitive black and white monosheet thermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorption at a wavelength between 450nm and 700nm; none of said at least two colorants is an antihalation dye; and at least one of said at least two colorants is incorporated in said support.
- Thermographic recording material according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said reducing agent is a 1,2-dihydroxy-benzene derivative.
- Thermographic recording material according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said reducing agent is a 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl compound.
- Thermographic recording material according to any of the preceding claims, wherein said thermosensitive element is provided with a protective layer.
- A thermographic recording process comprising the steps of: (i) bringing an outermost layer of a thermographic recording material according to any of claims 1 to 5 into proximity with a heat source; (ii) applying heat from said heat source imagewise to said thermographic recording material while maintaining proximity to said heat source to produce an image; and (iii) removing said thermographic recording material from said heat source.
- A black and white monosheet photothermographic recording material having a spectrophotometrically determined maximum absorption for visible light between 570 and 650nm and comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element, said photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, an organic reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with said substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, characterized in that said black and white monosheet photothermographic recording material contains at least two colorants with maximum absorptions at a wavelength between 450nm and 700nm; at least one of said at least two colorants is incorporated in said support and the other of said at least two colorants is incorporated in said thermosensitive element, in a protective layer, in a layer on the other side of said support to said thermosensitive element, in any other layer which is part of the thermographic recording material or in several layers thereof; and none of said at least two colorants has a maximum absorption at a wavelength within 30nm of the wavelength at which maximum spectral sensitivity of said photothermographic recording material is observed.
- Photothermographic recording material according to claim 7, wherein said support is exclusive of a dye of structure (I) : wherein M is a multi-valent metal atom; each of R1, R4, R5, R6, R9, R12, R13 and R16 independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group; each of R2, R3, R6, R7, R10, R11, R14 and R15 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or unbranched alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxygroup; or one or more of the adjacent pairs R1 and R2, R2 and R3, R3 and R4, R5 and R6, R6 and R7, R7 and R8, R8 and R9, R9 and R10, R10 and R11, R11 and R12, R13 and R14, R14 and R15 and R15 and R16 taken together may represent the atoms necessary to form a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heteroaromatic ring.
- Photothermographic recording material according to any of claims 7 to 9, wherein said photosensitive silver halide is spectrally sensitized to infra-red wavelengths.
- A photothermographic recording process comprising the steps of: (i) imagewise exposing a photothermographic recording material according to any of claims 7 to 10; (ii) bringing an outermost layer of said photothermographic recording material in proximity with a heat source; (iii) applying heat from said heat source to said photothermographic recording material under substantially water-free conditions while maintaining proximity to said heat source to produce an image; and (iv) removing said photothermographic recording material from said heat source.
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