EP1058150A1 - Shallow electron trap dopants in silver halide tabular grain emulsions for use in medical diagnostic imaging materials - Google Patents
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion particularly suitable for use in single-side and double-side coated radiographic materials.
- Tabular silver halide grains are grains possessing two parallel crystal faces with an aspect ratio of two or more. Said aspect ratio is defined as the ratio between the diameter of a circle having an equivalent surface area as one of these crystal faces, and the thickness, being the distance between the two major faces.
- Tabular grains are known in the photographic art for quite some time. As early as 1961 Berry et al. described the preparation and growth of tabular silver bromoiodide grains in Photographic Science and Engineering, Vol 5, No 6. A discussion of tabular grains appeared in Duffin, Photographic Emulsion Chemistry, Focal Press, 1966,p.66-72. Early patent literature includes US-A's 4,063,951; 4,067,739; 4,150,994; 4,184,877 and 4,184,878. However the tabular grains described herein cannot be regarded as showing a high diameter to thickness ratio, commonly termed aspect ratio. In a number of US-A's filed in 1981 and issued in 1984 tabular grains with high aspect ratio and their advantages in photographic applications are described as e.g. US-A's 4,434,226; 4,439,520; 4,425,425 and 4,425,426 and in Research Disclosure, Volume 225, Jan 1983, Item 22534.
- Anisotropic growth characteristics for the said tabular grains are known to be due to the formation of parallel twin planes in the nucleation step of the precipitation and as a global result fairly heterogeneous emulsion crystal distributions are obtained: a common variability coefficient (defined as a ratio between average standard deviation on equivalent circular diameter and the said average equivalent circular diameter) of 0.30 to 0.60 is calculated, partly due to the presence of quite a large number of non-tabular grains having a sphere equivalent diameter of less than 0.3 ⁇ m. Moreover differences in thickness growth are observed, said differences leading to unevenness as a consequence of observed differences in image tone.
- Heterodispersity of grain morphology further leads to e.g. uncontrolled chemical and spectral sensitization, lower contrast and lower covering power, thereby losing typical advantages of the said grains as referred to hereinbefore.
- radiographic materials comprising emulsions having monodisperse tabular silver brom(oiod)ide crystals have e.g. been described in US-A's 5,252,442 and 5,508,158.
- Combinations of intensifying screens provided with luminescent phosphors and light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials are conventionally used for medical diagnosis.
- the luminescent phosphors in the screen panel or panels are converting X-rays into visible radiation, thereby exposing the film material in contact with the said panel (for single-side coated materials as e.g. in mammography) or panels (for duplitized or double-side coated materials as e.g. in chest imaging). So in mammography e.g.
- the compressed breast is irradiated with soft X-rays emitted from an X-ray generating device and the modulated X-rays are detected with a radiographic X-ray conversion screen, also called intensifying, fluorescent screen or "phosphor screen".
- the X-ray conversion screen comprises a luminescent phosphor which converts the absorbed X-rays into visible light and the emitted visible light exposes a silver halide film that is brought into contact with said X-ray conversion screen.
- film processing comprising the steps of developing, fixing, rinsing and drying, a mammogram is obtained which can be read on a light box.
- contrast mammography films When the contrast is low, skin line perceptibility is excellent, but then the chance of missing possibly malignant breast lesions is high. Thus a balance has to be found between contrast and exposure latitude and an example of this approach has been described in US-A 5,290,655. At first sight tabular grains would be judged not to be able to satisfy all those requirements, especially with respect to contrast.
- mammography films are preferred which comprise silver halide crystals that can be processed rapidly and consistently in a dry-to-dry processing cycle of 90 seconds or less and therefore, most mammography films today comprise good developable cubic silver halide crystals.
- cubic crystals show a stable speed and contrast upon varying processing parameters, but said cubic grain emulsions however are characterized by a very high contrast, resulting in a poor skin line perceptibility.
- a light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a binder and core-shell tabular grains, wherein said core is more rich in silver bromide than said shell, characterized in that said grains contain, in the core thereof representing an amount of precipitated silver halide extending up to less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide, a ruthenium complex compound (more preferably a (hexa)cyanate salt complex of ruthenium) as a sole complex compound providing shallow electron traps.
- a single-side or double-side coated silver halide photo-graphic material comprising a support and coated thereon one or both sides respectively one or more hydrophilic light-sensitive layers, wherein at least one of said layers comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion according to the present invention.
- said sole compound providing shallow electron traps (SET's) in the core-shell tabular grains of the emulsion according to the present invention is a ruthenium complex compound, and more particularly, in a more preferred embodiment, a ruthenium (hexa)cyanate complex compound.
- a metal ligand complex (as the ruthenium cyanate complex present in the core of the tabular grains rich in silver bromide) used as sole shallow electron trap providing complex compound in the said core, is a compound providing shallow electron traps (SET's) if all ligands in the metal complex are more electronegative (situated more to the right side of the spectrophotometrical series), opposite to those providing more permanent trapping centres when a ligand is becoming less electronegative whereby the trap depth of the metal complex dopant will increase.
- SET's shallow electron traps
- the g value of the shallowly trapped electron in AgCl is 1.880 ⁇ 0.001 and for AgBr is 1.49 ⁇ 0.02.
- the g value in EPR is characteristic for each examined species and can be calculated and measured as described in, e.g., Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Techniques and Applications , by Raymond S. Alger, (1968) published by Interscience publishers, New York.
- the width of the line, as a function of temperature and concentration of the added dopant complex, has been described by H. Vercammen, D. Schoemaker, D. Vandenbroucke, Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Silver Halide Imaging , Victoria - BC, Canada, 1997, pp. 125.
- the line width of the EPR signal of shallowly trapped electrons at 20 K is quoted to be 1.0 ⁇ 0.1 mT for a dopant concentration of 1 ppm. This parameter (line width) can be used as a thorough check of the concentration of the dopant which is effectively built in.
- said compound providing shallow electron traps is present in amount of from 1 p.p.b. up to 100 p.p.m. versus silver, and, more preferably in an amount of from 10 up to 100 p.p.m..
- the core of the light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion, more rich in silver bromide than the shell represents an amount of precipitated silver halide extending up to less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide, and more preferably even up to at most 40 % of all silver halide precipitated.
- Ruthenium ion complexes providing shallow electron traps desired in order to reach the objects of the present invention, also called dopants, are e.g. those described in an interesting survey of Research Disclosure, Item 36736 (November 1994).
- Recommended SET's, besides the ruthenium (hexa)cyanate complex compound(s) are e.g. metal-halogen-fluorine complexes, more preferably hexafluoro coordinated iridium ion complexes described in EP-A 0 945 755, which are also advantageously added to the emulsion of the present invention.
- the complex compound dopants disoclosed therein are commonly added in significantly lower amounts to the tabular grains rich in silver bromide coated in emulsion form in one or more hydrophilic layers of the material according to the present invention than as e.g. spectral sensitisers and are thereby causing much less chemical load of the image-forming system of the present invention.
- Said dopants can in principle be added in whatever a stage of the emulsion preparation, provided that those dopants are not present in a shell outside the core rich in silver bromide and extending up to less than 50 % (and in a preferred embodiment outside the core extending up to 40%) of all silver precipitated.
- complex ion compounds of ruthenium are incorporated in a limited part of the core portion, preferably the ruthenium cyanate salts thereof, and more preferably the ruthenium hexacyanate salt is particularly recommended as dopant(s) for the said core-shell tabular grain emulsions rich in silver bromide: in the presence of a sole complex ion compound as the preferred [Ru(CN) 6 ] 4- , in the core of the core-shell tabular grain, wherein said core is more rich in silver bromide than the shell, it is possible to reach the objects of the present invention, more particularly to reach the desired enhanced contrast without loss in speed.
- the non-uniform distributrion of said sole complex ion compounds providing shallow electron traps plays a dominant role and when the tabular grains rich in silver bromide are described as core-shell tabular grains this means that the core thereof contains shallow electron trap dopants as ruthenium compounds mentioned hereinbefore, whereas the shell is completely free thereof.
- the dopants providing shallow electron traps can be added from the start of the nucleation step until addition less than 50 % of the total amount of silver (thus during part of the growth step) and before addition of at least the other 50 % of silver salt in order to build up the shell of the core-shell tabular grain, wherein said shell has a lower content of silver bromide, in that part of the silver bromide has been replaced by silver iodide and, optionally by silver chloride, so that the tabular grains have a silver bromoiodide or bromochloroiodide composition.
- hole trapping dopants chosen from carboxylic (formic) acid (salts) and ⁇ -hydroxy sulfenic acid (salts) described in EP-Application No. 98204079, filed November 30, 1998 in order to get further improved sensitometric properties.
- silver iodide present in the core-shell tabular grains of the present invention is divided non-homogeneously over the crystal volume it is preferred that all silver iodide is concentrated in the outer shell of the core-shell tabular grain, wherein said outer shell represents at least 50 % of all silver precipitated and wherein said iodide is present in an enhanced amount in order to get an average silver iodide content over the whole grain volume of less than 3 mole %.
- said grains have silver bromide in an average amount of at least 95 % and even up to 99 mole % of silver bromide, although even higher amounts of bromide are not excluded. Further according to the present invention said grains have silver iodide in an average amount over the grain volume of at most 3 mole %, more preferably at most 1 mole %. Although preferred with respect to intrinsic and to spectral sensitivity it is recommended to limit average iodide concentrations to low levels as disclosed hereinbefore as higher concentrations retard development and lead to unsatisfactory sensitivities. Moreover the velocity of fixation can be disturbed in that case and as a consequence residual colouration may be unavoidable.
- said solution can be introduced by means of a so-called "third-jet" in order to introduce the dopant in the reaction vessel where rapid incorporation in the growing crystals is performed.
- said third-jet is adding the dopant solution in the vicinity of the stirrer, where also new rapidly dissolving fine grain nuclei are formed which are precipitated further onto growing tabular crystals rich in silver bromide.
- tabular grains according to the present invention have a ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal habit with an aspect ratio of more than 2, an average equivalent crystal diameter of at least 0.5 ⁇ m, an average thickness of from 0.06 to 0.30 ⁇ m and wherein said grains account for a total projected area of at least 90 % with respect to all grains.
- said tabular grains having a ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal habit have an aspect ratio of from 5 to 20, an average equivalent crystal diameter of from 0.5 ⁇ m up to 5 ⁇ m (more preferably from 0.5 ⁇ m up to 3 ⁇ m), an average thickness of from 0.06 to 0.30 ⁇ m (more preferably from 0.06 ⁇ m up to 0.2 ⁇ m and even more preferably up to 0.15 ⁇ m) and wherein said grains account for a total projected area of at least 90 % and even more with respect to all grains.
- the emulsion has tabular grains having a hexagonal ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal habit with a habitual variation coefficient on average crystal diameter of 25 % or less and more preferably 20 % or less.
- Emulsions according to the present invention can be prepared as those described in US-A 5,595,864, but methods, providing relatively narrow grain size distributions which can be applied are e.g. US-A's 5,290,655 and 5,693,459 and EP-A's 0 518 066 and 0 577 886.
- Patent literature related with the chemical ripening of tabular emulsion grains rich in silver bromide can be found e.g. in EP-A's 0 476 345, 0 831 363, 0 862 088 and 0 895 121 and in US-A's 5,004,679; 5,348,850; 5,654,134; 5,773,901; 5,807,667, without however being limited thereto.
- Preferred unstable selenium compounds are e.g. those selected from the group consisting of substituted selenoureum, substituted triphenylphosphine selenide, substituted and unsubstituted triphenylorthophosphate selenide and substituted selenothiazine compounds.
- Said selenium sensitisers are preferably used together with other sensitisers as at least gold and optionally sulphur.
- Especially useful labile compounds providing sulphur are therefore e.g. sodium thiosulphate, tetramethyl-thiodithioacetic acid diamide and further dimethylamino-dithiomercaptane, thiosulphates or thiosulphonates.
- Other useful compounds which may be applied are those as described e.g. in "Chimie et Physique Photographique" by P. Glafkides, in “Photographic Emulsion Chemistry” by G.F. Duffin, in “Making and Coating Photographic Emulsion” by V.L. Zelikman et al, and in "Die Grundlagen der Photographischen mit Silberhalogeniden” edited by H. Frieser and published by Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (1968).
- chemical sensitization can be carried out by effecting the ripening in the presence of small amounts of compounds containing sulphur as e.g. thiosulphate, thiocyanate, thioureas; sulphites, mercapto compounds, rhodamines etc.., wherein combinations of gold-sulphur ripeners together with the required selenium sensitisers are the most preferred.
- sulphur e.g. thiosulphate, thiocyanate, thioureas
- sulphites mercapto compounds
- tellurium compounds as e.g. tellurosulphate, tellurocyanate, telluroureas in very small amounts is thereby however not excluded.
- tellurium compounds have e.g. been described in US-A's 5,348,850; 5,541,047; 5,654,134.
- Further reductors as e.g. tin compounds as described in GB-A 789,823, amines, hydrazine derivatives, formamidine-sulphinic acids, and silane compounds may be used, although care should be taken in order to prevent the emulsion from fog formation in an uncontrollable way.
- Normal amounts of selenium compounds are in the range from 1 x 10 -5 - 1 x 10 -7 moles per mole of silver
- gold compounds as gold chloride or gold thiocyanate
- reducing agents may be used in order to counterbalance the restraining actions from spectral sensitizers, fog-restrainers or stabilizers as e.g. substituted heterocyclic mercapto compounds described in US-A 5,242,791.
- Silver solvents may have a regulating role therein as e.g. thiocyanate ions. It is a common method to add chemical sensitizers after redispersion. Before starting chemical sensitization the surface of the tabular silver halide grains rich in silver bromide may be treated with slightly oxidizing compounds as e.g. toluene thiosulphonic acid and/or corresponding salts thereof in order to reduce small silver specks to grow to fog centers in an uncontrolled way.
- slightly oxidizing compounds as e.g. toluene thiosulphonic acid and/or corresponding salts thereof in order to reduce small silver specks to grow to fog centers in an uncontrolled way.
- light-sensitive tabular ⁇ 111 ⁇ silver halide grains rich in silver bromide may be spectrally sensitised with methine dyes such as those described by F.M. Hamer in "The Cyanine Dyes and Related Compounds", 1964, John Wiley & Sons.
- Dyes that may be used for the purpose of spectral sensitisation include cyanine dyes, merocyanine dyes, complex cyanine dyes, complex merocyanine dyes, homopolar cyanine dyes, hemicyanine dyes, styryl dyes and hemioxonol dyes.
- Spectral sensitization of said tabular grains or crystals proceeds with spectrally sensitizing compounds selected from the group consisting of benzimidazoles, benzoxazoles, or a combination thereof.
- An example of a useful spectral sensitiser of the oxacarbocyanine type is anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphobutyl)-9-ethyloxacarbocyanine hydroxide or anhydro-5,5'-di-chloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphopropyl)-9-ethyloxacarbocyanine hydroxide.
- a suitable mixture or combination of spectral sensitisers of the oxa- and imidacarbocyanine type is anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphobutyl)-9-ethyl oxacarbocyanine hydroxide or anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphopropyl)-9-ethyloxacarbocyanine hydroxide together with anhydro-5,5'-dicyano-1,1'-diethyl-3,3'-di(2-acetoxy-ethyl)ethyl-imidacarbocyanine bromide.
- Spectral sensitizers having asymmetrical heterocycles may be useful and may even be preferred with respect to improvements in residual colouration after processing.
- Unsymmetrically chain substituted oxacarbocyanine dyes and/or imidacarbocyanine dyes suitable to improve dye stain and spectral sensitivity in the green short wavelength region have e.g. been given in JP-A 03-048235.
- Supersensitization with a symmetrical oxacarbocyanine dye in combination with a carbocyanine dye of e.g. the oxazole-imidazole type has been disclosed in US-A's 4,594,317 and 4,659,654.
- spectral sensitization In classical emulsion preparation spectral sensitization traditionally follows the completion of chemical sensitization. It can however be advantageous to add an amount of a small amount of spectral sensitizing dye to the emulsion crystals just before cooling of the dispersion at the end of the growth stage, but in principle the addition of said dye may be performed at any stage of the precipitation, during or after redispersing or before, during or after chemical ripening. The addition can further be performed in one or more portions. So in US-A 5,286,621 it has been shown that spectral sensitizer is added in amounts ranging from 10 -5 to 5 x 10 -3 moles per mole of silver halide as a whole after completion of the precipitation or in several fractions during and after precipitation.
- An important factor influencing growth of silver nuclei in the preparation of tabular grains rich in silver bromide is the choice of and the amount of protective colloid present in the reaction vessel or added simultaneously with one of the solutions added thereto during nucleation and further, eventually, after nucleation, during physical ripening before and/or during growth of the nuclei formed.
- said binder is gelatin, colloidal silica sol or cationic oxidized starch.
- the most well-known and practically used hydrophilic colloidal binder during precipitation of tabular grains rich in silver bromide is gelatin.
- the preparation of conventional lime-treated or acid treated gelatin has been described in e.g. "The Science and Technology of Gelatin", edited by A.G. Ward and A.
- gelatin can also be enzyme-treated as described in Bull. Soc. Sci. Phot. Japan, N o 16, page 30 (1966).
- a preparation method of tabular grain emulsions wherein in the grain growth process use is made of gelatin derivatives with chemically modified NH 2 -groups and wherein said gelatin has a specific methionine content has been described in e.g. EP-A 0 697 618.
- Gelatin may, however, be replaced in part or integrally by synthetic, semi-synthetic, or natural polymers. Synthetic substitutes for gelatin are e.g.
- Natural substitutes for gelatin are e.g. other proteins such as zein, albumin and casein, cellulose, saccharides, starch, and alginates.
- the semi-synthetic substitutes for gelatin are modified natural products e.g.
- gelatin derivatives obtained by conversion of gelatin with alkylating or acylating agents, by grafting of polymerizable monomers on gelatin or prehardened gelatins with blocked functional groups as a consequence of this prehardening treatment, cellulose derivatives such as hydroxyalkyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, phthaloyl cellulose, and cellulose sulphates and even potato starch, whether or not modified as e.g. cationic oxidized starch.
- the emulsion mixture is normally cooled to about 40°C, before or after adding a flocculate being a polymeric compound as e.g. polystyrene sulphonic acid, providing as a anionic polymer a behaviour depending on pH.
- a flocculate being a polymeric compound as e.g. polystyrene sulphonic acid, providing as a anionic polymer a behaviour depending on pH.
- a flocculate being a polymeric compound as e.g. polystyrene sulphonic acid, providing as a anionic polymer a behaviour depending on pH.
- a flocculate being a polymeric compound as e.g. polystyrene sulphonic acid, providing as a anionic polymer a behaviour depending on pH.
- the pH of the said dispersing medium is adjusted with an acid to a value in order to get a qualitatively good flocculate.
- Said flocculate may become decanted and
- Said ultrafiltration technique may be applied on-line during the whole precipitation, in order to reduce the increasing amount of water, thus avoiding dilution of the reaction vessel and increasing amounts of soluble salts like the mainly occurring potassium nitrate. Examples thereof have been described e.g. in EP-A 0 577 886.
- a technique also called ultrafiltration it is not necessary to use polymeric flocculating agents that may disturb the coating composition stability before, during or after the coating procedure. Such procedures are disclosed e.g. in Research Disclosure Vol. 102, Oct. 1972, Item 10208, Research Disclosure Vol. 131, March, Item 13122 and US-A 4,334,012.
- Redispersion may further be performed by addition of extra hydrophilic colloid.
- values of gesi and/or sisi may be enhanced up to values desired in order to prepare stable coating solutions. It is clear however that any useful protective colloid cited hereinbefore as an alternative of gelatin or gelatin in modified form may be used.
- Emulsions having tabular silver halide grains rich in silver bromide according to the present invention which have been prepared in order to be coated in light-sensitive silver halide layers of a film material should be stabilized in a suitable manner in order to provide a good fog-sensitivity(speed) relationship.
- a suitable way to stabilize such emulsions has e.g.
- the silver halide emulsions according to the present invention may further comprise as compounds preventing the formation of a high minimum density during the production or storage of photographic materials or during the photographic treatment thereof the heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compounds such as benzothiazolium salts, nitroimidazoles, nitrobenzimidazoles, chlorobenzimidazoles, bromobenzimidazoles, mercaptothiazoles, mercaptobenzothiazoles, mercaptobenzimidazoles, mercaptothiadiazoles, aminotriazoles, benzotriazoles (preferably 5-methylbenzotriazole), nitrobenzotriazoles, mercaptotetrazoles, in particular 1-phenyl-5-mercapto-tetrazole, mercaptopyrimidines, mercaptotriazines, benzothiazoline-2-thione, oxazoline-thione, triazaindenes, tetrazaindenes and pentazaindenes, especially those
- the binder of the layers can be forehardened with appropriate hardening agents such as those of the epoxide type, those of the ethylenimine type, those of the vinylsulfone type, e.g. 1,3-vinylsulphonyl-2-propanol or di(vinylsulphonyl)-methane, vinylsulphonyl-ether compounds, vinylsulphonyl compounds having soluble groups, chromium salts like e.g. chromium acetate and chromium alum, aldehydes as e.g.
- N-methylol compounds as e.g. dimethylolurea and methyloldimethylhydantoin, dioxan derivatives e.g. 2,3-dihydroxy-dioxan, active vinyl compounds e.g. 1,3,5-triacryloyl-hexahydro-s-triazine, active halogen compounds e.g. 2,4-dichloro-6-hydroxy-s-triazine, and mucohalogenic acids e.g. mucochloric acid and mucophenoxychloric acid.
- These hardeners can be used alone or in combination.
- the binder can also be hardened with fast-reacting hardeners such as carbamoylpyridinium salts as disclosed in US-A's 4,063,952 and with the onium compounds as disclosed in EP-A 0 408 143.
- a light-sensitive silver halide photographic film material is further provided, wherein said material comprises a support and on one or both sides thereof at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer having a core-shell tabular grain emulsion as disclosed hereinbefore.
- the photographic material comprising emulsions according to the present invention may further comprise various kinds of surface-active agents in the light-sensitive emulsion layer(s) or in at least one other hydrophilic colloid layer.
- Suitable surface-active agents include non-ionic agents such as saponins, alkylene oxides, e.g., polyethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol/polypropylene glycol condensation products, polyethylene glycol alkyl ethers or polyethylene glycol alkylaryl ethers, polyethylene glycol esters, polyethylene glycol sorbitan esters, polyalkylene glycol alkylamines or alkylamides, silicone-polyethylene oxide adducts, glycidol derivatives, fatty acid esters of polyhydric alcohols and alkyl esters of saccharides, anionic agents comprising an acid group such as a carboxyl, sulpho, phospho, sulphuric or phosphoric ester group; ampholytic agents such as aminoacids,
- Such surface-active agents can be used for various purposes, e.g. as coating aids, as compounds preventing electric charges, as compounds improving film transport in automatic film handling equipment, as compounds facilitating dispersive emulsification, as compounds preventing or reducing adhesion, and as compounds improving photographic properties such as higher contrast, sensitization and development acceleration.
- coating aids as compounds preventing electric charges
- compounds improving film transport in automatic film handling equipment as compounds facilitating dispersive emulsification, as compounds preventing or reducing adhesion
- photographic properties such as higher contrast, sensitization and development acceleration.
- development acceleration may be useful, which can be accomplished with the aid of various compounds, preferably polyoxyalkylene derivatives having a molecular weight of at least 400 such as those described in e.g. US-A's 3,038,805; 4,038,075 and 4,292,400.
- Especially preferred developing accelerators are recurrent thioether groups containing polyoxyethylenes as described in DE 2,360,878, EP-A's 0 634 688 and 0 674 215.
- the same or different or a mixture of different developing accelerators may be added to at least one of the hydrophilic layers at the emulsion side. It may be advantageous to partially substitute the hydrophilic colloid binder, preferably gelatin, of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or of an hydrophilic colloid layer in water-permeable relationship therewith by suitable amounts of dextran or dextran derivatives to improve the covering power of the silver image formed and to provide a higher resistance to abrasion in wet condition.
- the photographic material comprising emulsions of the present invention may further comprise various other additives such as compounds improving the dimensional stability of the photographic material, UV-absorbers, spacing agents, lubricants, plasticizers, antistatic agents, etc.
- Suitable additives for improving the dimensional stability are i.a. dispersions of a water-soluble or hardly soluble synthetic polymer e.g.
- UV-absorbers are e.g.
- benzotriazole compounds as described in US-A 3,533,794, 4-thiazolidone compounds as described in US-A's 3,314,794 and 3,352,681, benzophenone compounds as described in JP-A 2784/71, cinnamic ester compounds as described in US-A's 3,705,805 and 3,707,375, butadiene compounds as described in US-A 4,045,229, and benzoxazole compounds as described in US-A 3,700,455.
- the average particle size of spacing agents is comprised between 0.2 and 10 ⁇ m.
- Spacing agents can be soluble or insoluble in alkali. Alkali-insoluble spacing agents usually remain permanently in the photographic material, whereas alkali-soluble spacing agents usually are removed in an alkaline processing bath.
- Suitable spacing agents can be made i.a. of polymethyl methacrylate, of copolymers of acrylic acid and methyl methacrylate, and of hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose hexahydrophthalate. Other suitable spacing agents have been described in US-A 4,614,708.
- acetamide or polyols such as trimethylolpropane, pentanediol, butanediol, ethylene glycol and glycerine.
- a polymer latex is preferably incorporated into the hydrophilic colloid layer for the purpose of improving the anti-pressure properties, e.g. a homopolymer of acrylic acid alkyl ester or a copolymer thereof with acrylic acid, a copolymer of styrene and butadiene, and a homopolymer or copolymer consisting of monomers having an active methylene group.
- the photographic material comprising emulsions according to the present invention may comprise an antistatic layer to avoid static discharges during coating, processing and other handling of the material.
- antistatic layer may be an outermost coating like the protective layer or an afterlayer or a stratum of one or more antistatic agents or a coating applied directly to the film support or other support and overcoated with a barrier or gelatin layer.
- Antistatic compounds suitable for use in such layers are e.g. vanadium pentoxide soles, tin oxide soles or conductive polymers such as polyethylene oxides or a polymer latex and the like.
- the photographic materials comprising emulsions according to the present invention are characterized by a neutral silver image tone, obtained after exposure and processing. It is well known that thin tabular emulsion grains may produce a brownish, yellow or even reddish image tone and therefore, tabular grains having an average thickness of 0.2 ⁇ m or more are preferred. On the other hand, a thickness between 0.20 and 0.3 ⁇ m may is not always preferred since thicker grains are characterized by a lower covering power of the developed silver, requiring a large amount of silver halide in the photographic material in order to obtain a satisfactory maximum density. Methods in order to prepare thicker tabular grains may however be applied as has already been described in US-A's 4,801,522; 5,028,521 and 5,013,641 and EP-A 0 569 075.
- the non-neutral silver image colour of materials comprising emulsions according to the present invention can be corrected by increasing the optical density in the red region of the visible spectrum by adding suitable dyes to the support or any coated layer.
- This non-image wise colour correction method has been disclosed in references as e.g. JP-A's 03100645; 01029838; 01312536; 03103846; 03094249; 03255435; 61285445; EP-A 0 271 309 and in US-A 4,861,702.
- This method however may result in an excessive base+fog density of the photographic material and therefore, an alternative way consists in an image-wise colour correction by using colour-forming developers, which are blue coloured in their oxidized form.
- JP-A 03153234; 03154043 and 03154046 Examples thereof are summarized in JP-A 03153234; 03154043 and 03154046.
- JP-A's 03156447 and 03157645 the adsorption of a blue coloured dye as a function of exposure has further been disclosed.
- Another method to improve the image tone of tabular grain emulsions according to the present invention consists of mixing them with cubic grains containing chloride as disclosed in EP-A 0 770 909.
- the photographic material comprising emulsions according to the present invention may comprise in an adjacent layer, but more preferably in the emulsion layer(s), a mercapto-substituted compound consisting of a group of atoms necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered ring.
- the compounds of the above formula are preferably added in an amount from 10 -6 to 10 -2 , more preferably 10 -5 to 10 -3 mole per mole of silver in the emulsion layer(s). Representative examples of these compounds are given in US-A 5,290,655.
- emulsions are thus provided for use in light-sensitive layers of a photographic material as e.g. a colour photographic material or a black-and-white photographic material, a micrographic film material, a film material for aviation photography, cinéfilm, hardcopy films, non-destructive testing materials, laser films, graphic and reprographic films, and radiographic film materials.
- a photographic material as e.g. a colour photographic material or a black-and-white photographic material, a micrographic film material, a film material for aviation photography, cinéfilm, hardcopy films, non-destructive testing materials, laser films, graphic and reprographic films, and radiographic film materials.
- Single-side or double-side coated silver halide photographic materials comprising a support and coated thereon one or both sides respectively one or more hydrophilic light-sensitive layers, wherein at least one of said layers comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion according to the present invention are more particularly provided.
- said photographic material comprises on only one side of the support only one hydrophilic light-sensitive layer comprising an emulsion as disclosed herein, wherein light-sensitive tabular grains have a coverage of from 3.0 to 9.0 g/m 2 , more preferably from 5.0 to 9.0 g/m 2 , expressed as silver nitrate.
- the said material is particularly suitable for use in radiographic applications, and, more preferably, in mammographic applications wherein the desired contrast can thus be attained as set forth in the objects of the present invention.
- radiographic film materials are, according to the present invention, used in radiographic screen/film combinations comprising a light-sensitive silver halide photographic film material as disclosed hereinbefore together with a supporting or self-supporting X-ray intensifying screen, characterized in that said supported or self-supporting X-ray intensifying screen essentially consists of luminescent phosphor particles emitting green light.
- a radiographic screen/film combination is provided wherein said luminescent phosphor is Gd 2 O 2 S:Tb.
- a radiographic screen/film combination is provided wherein the total amount of coated silver halide in said film, expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate, is less than 7.5 g/m 2 .
- an automatically operating apparatus For processing said film material after exposure with X-rays, preferably an automatically operating apparatus is used provided with a system for automatic replenishment of the processing solutions.
- the processing dry-to-dry within a short processing time of from 30 to 90 seconds and more preferably from 30 seconds to less than 60 seconds of materials coated from low amounts of silver is made possible by the steps of
- a normally used configuration in the processing apparatus shows the following consecutive tank units corresponding with, as consecutive solutions: developer-fixer-rinse water.
- developer-fixer-rinse water As consecutive solutions the sequence developer-fixer-fixer-rinse water-rinse water is preferred.
- One washing step between developing and fixation and one at the end before drying may also be present.
- a particularly suitable developer solution is the one comprising a reduced amount of sulphite and ascorbic acid which acts as a main developer and anti-oxidant as well and which is called "low-sludge" developer as has e.g. been described in EP-A 0 851 282 and in EP-Applications Nos. 98203412 and 98204079, filed October 8 and November 30, 1998, respectively.
- a particularly suitable fixer solution comprises an amount of less than 25 g of potassium sulphite per liter without the presence of acetic acid wherein said fixer has a pH value of at least 4.5, in order to make the fixer solution quasi odourless as illustrated in EP-A 0 908 764.
- preferred minimum regeneration or replenishment amounts are also from about 20 to 200 ml/m 2 , more preferred from 20 to 100 ml/m 2 and still more preferred from 20 to 50 ml/m 2 of developed material.
- aluminum ions are present in the fixer solution in order to effect hardening, it is necessary to adjust the pH of the fixer in the range from 4.2 to 4.6 in order to get the highest hardening reactivity and to suppress swelling with washing water in the washing or rinsing step.
- fixer pH For hardened materials having a swelling degree of the hydrophilic layers of less than 250 % and more preferably of less than 200 % it is not required for the fixer pH to held constant in the pH range from 4.2 to 4.6 as mentioned before: in order to reduce irritating smell from sulphite ions in aqueous acidic medium which lead to sulphur dioxide vapour it is recommended to enhance pH to a value of 4.65 up to 5.00.
- a process whereby the quality of the fixer remains at an optimum level has been described in EP-A 0 872 764.
- a radiological method for obtaining a diagnostic image for mammography comprising the steps of
- the same method is applied with respect to e.g. chest-imaging applications, apart for
- the preparation scheme was the same as for the preparation of tabular emulsion TC1, except for the first growth step wherein the double jet precipation was continued during another period of 22 minutes and 24 seconds instead of 33 minutes and 22 seconds as for TC1, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly increased up to 18.0 ml/min and while the flow rate of S2 was adjusted in order to maintain a pAg of 8.85.
- S1 was added at 7.5 ml/min during 10 minutes while introducing over the same period 147 ml of an aqueous solution of hexacyanoruthenate trihydrate (containing 0.419 g/l of the dopant) and S2 at a flow rate in order to maintain the pAg value constant.
- the chemical ripening was performed in just the same way (same amounts of chemicals and order of addition) as described for emulsion TC1.
- the dopant agent was thus added after a relative amount of precipitated silver of about 1/5 of the total amount, in an annular ring corresponding with a precipitated amount of about 5 % of silver nitrate added and before growing the tabular grains with an amount of about 75 % of the total amount of precipitated silver.
- (a) represents Polythioether A which is a modified poly-epichloorhydrine having an average chain length of approximately 20 monomer units and of which about 50% of the chloride groups have been replaced by a
- the photographic materials according to these examples comprise one emulsion layer and one protective layer.
- the coating solutions of the emulsion layers were prepared by adding solutions of the compounds indicated in Table 1 to the melted emulsion while stirring.
- the coating solution of the protective layer is given in Table 2. After adjusting pH to 6.7, the viscosity and surface tension of the coating solutions were optimised according to the requirements of the coating method.
- the emulsion layer(s) and the protective layer were coated simultaneously on one side of a substrated polyester support having a thickness of 175 ⁇ m by means of conventional coating techniques.
- the silver coverage of the emulsions was about 7 g/m 2 , expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate.
- Bis-vinylsulfonylmethyl ether was added in order to reduce the swelling degree of the unexposed material during 3 minutes in demineralized water of 25°C to 200 %.
- This Table 3 shows the sensitometric results in terms of fog F, speed S (figures multiplied with a factor of 100, measured at a density of 1.4 above fog: the lower the figure, the more sensitive is the emulsion), "toe” contrast (gradation) TG (measured between 0.1 and 1.4 above fog), overall contrast GG (measured between 0.25 and 2.0 above fog),and "shoulder” contrasts or gradation SG1 and SG2 (measured between 1.4 and 2.5 above fog and 0.8 and 1.6 above fog respectively),of the photographic strips prepared and exposed as set forth above. Contrast values have all been multiplied with a factor of 100. Matl.No F S TG GG SG1 SG2 TC1 0.03 157 183 241 287 285 TI1 0.04 137 285 375 432 420 TI2 0.03 150 312 405 449 466
- the presence in the light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsions more particularly in core-shell ⁇ 111 ⁇ tabular grains rich in silver bromide (pure AgBr core up to 1/3 of all silver precipitated; AgBr(I) in the outermost shell), of hexacyano ruthenate salt as a dopant (locally concentrated in a band corresponding with 5 % of silver nitrate precipitated, after precipitation of 20 % of the total amount of silver), in total amounts of 50 and 100 p.p.m. respectively leads to an increased contrast over the whole sensitometric curve without loss in speed versus a materials coated from tabular grains without said sahllow electron trap dopant having the same halide composition.
- S1 was added at a rate of 7.5 ml/min during 9 minutes and 50 seconds, while maintaining the pAg value at 7.68 when adding S3 (solution of 1.20 N of KBr and 0.018 N of KI) at a variable rate.
- a second growth step was performed wherein 1519 ml of S1 were added in 75 minutes (starting velocity 7.5 ml/min. was increased up to 33 ml/min. at the end). S3 was added in order to maintain the pAg at a value of 7.68.
- the preparation scheme was the same as for the preparation of tabular emulsion TC2 hereinbefore, except for the first growth step wherein the double jet precipation was continued during another period of 67 minutes and 16 seconds instead of 95 minutes and 10 seconds as for TC2, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly increased up to 11.25 ml/min and while the flow rate of S2 was adjusted in order to maintain a pAg of 7.68.
- a following (third) growth step was performed by introduction of solution S1 and solution S3 by double-jet addition at a starting rate of 7.5 ml/min. during 21 min. 28, linearly increasing from said 7.5 ml/min up to 35.44 ml/min maintaining pAg at a value of 7.68.
- the iodide content was 1 mol %.
- the chemical ripening was performed in just the same way (same amounts of chemicals and order of addition) as described for emulsion TC1.
- the dopant agent was thus added after a relative amount of precipitated silver of about 1/5 of the total amount, in an annular ring corresponding with a precipitated amount of about 5 % of silver nitrate added and before growing the tabular grains with the left amount of about 75 % of the total amount of precipitated silver.
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Abstract
A light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion has been
disclosed, said emulsion comprising a binder and core-shell tabular
grains, wherein said core is more rich in silver bromide than said
shell, characterized in that said grains contain, in the core
thereof representing an amount of precipitated silver halide
extending up to less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide, a
ruthenium complex compound as a sole complex compound providing
shallow electron traps.
Description
The present invention relates to a light-sensitive silver
halide photographic emulsion particularly suitable for use in
single-side and double-side coated radiographic materials.
Tabular silver halide grains are grains possessing two parallel
crystal faces with an aspect ratio of two or more. Said aspect ratio
is defined as the ratio between the diameter of a circle having an
equivalent surface area as one of these crystal faces, and the
thickness, being the distance between the two major faces.
Tabular grains are known in the photographic art for quite some
time. As early as 1961 Berry et al. described the preparation and
growth of tabular silver bromoiodide grains in Photographic Science
and Engineering, Vol 5, No 6. A discussion of tabular grains appeared
in Duffin, Photographic Emulsion Chemistry, Focal Press, 1966,p.66-72.
Early patent literature includes US-A's 4,063,951; 4,067,739;
4,150,994; 4,184,877 and 4,184,878. However the tabular grains
described herein cannot be regarded as showing a high diameter to
thickness ratio, commonly termed aspect ratio. In a number of US-A's
filed in 1981 and issued in 1984 tabular grains with high aspect ratio
and their advantages in photographic applications are described as
e.g. US-A's 4,434,226; 4,439,520; 4,425,425 and 4,425,426 and in
Research Disclosure, Volume 225, Jan 1983, Item 22534.
Anisotropic growth characteristics for the said tabular grains
are known to be due to the formation of parallel twin planes in the
nucleation step of the precipitation and as a global result fairly
heterogeneous emulsion crystal distributions are obtained: a common
variability coefficient (defined as a ratio between average standard
deviation on equivalent circular diameter and the said average
equivalent circular diameter) of 0.30 to 0.60 is calculated, partly
due to the presence of quite a large number of non-tabular grains
having a sphere equivalent diameter of less than 0.3 µm. Moreover
differences in thickness growth are observed, said differences
leading to unevenness as a consequence of observed differences in
image tone.
Heterodispersity of grain morphology further leads to e.g.
uncontrolled chemical and spectral sensitization, lower contrast and
lower covering power, thereby losing typical advantages of the said
grains as referred to hereinbefore.
Until now efforts in order to get more monodisperse tabular
silver halide crystal distributions in emulsion preparation have
been directed towards silver halide crystals rich in silver bromide
as has e.g. been described in US-A's 4,797,354; 5,147,771;
5,147,772; 5,147,773; 5,171,659; 5,248,587; 5,204,235; 5,210,013;
5,215,879; 5,250,403; 5,252,442, 5,252,453; 5,254,453; 5,318,888;
5,439,787; 5,472,837; 5,482,826 and 5,484,697 and in Research
Disclosure No. 391, p. 713-723 (1996).
Many attempts have been made in order to improve the degree of
homogeneity of the size and shape of the crystals but the majority of
them is related with tabular grains rich in silver bromide. So
radiographic materials comprising emulsions having monodisperse
tabular silver brom(oiod)ide crystals have e.g. been described in
US-A's 5,252,442 and 5,508,158.
Combinations of intensifying screens provided with luminescent
phosphors and light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials
are conventionally used for medical diagnosis. By X-ray radiation
the luminescent phosphors in the screen panel or panels are
converting X-rays into visible radiation, thereby exposing the film
material in contact with the said panel (for single-side coated
materials as e.g. in mammography) or panels (for duplitized or
double-side coated materials as e.g. in chest imaging). So in
mammography e.g. the compressed breast is irradiated with soft X-rays
emitted from an X-ray generating device and the modulated X-rays
are detected with a radiographic X-ray conversion screen, also
called intensifying, fluorescent screen or "phosphor screen". The
X-ray conversion screen comprises a luminescent phosphor which
converts the absorbed X-rays into visible light and the emitted
visible light exposes a silver halide film that is brought into
contact with said X-ray conversion screen. After film processing,
comprising the steps of developing, fixing, rinsing and drying, a
mammogram is obtained which can be read on a light box. No other
field of medical radiology demands such a high level of image
quality as mammography and the ability of the mammogram to portray
relevant diagnostic information is highly determined by the image
quality of the screen-film system. Image quality is manifested by a
number of features in the image including sharpness, noise,
contrast, silver image colour and skin line perceptibility.
Conventional mammography films can roughly be classified in low and
high contrast types according to the value of their average
gradation as defined above. The low contrast type can be
characterized by a relatively low average gradation ranging from 2.0
to 2.5 whereas the average gradation of the high contrast type may
range higher than 3.0. Often, high contrast films are preferred
because of the higher ability to detect tiny cancers deep in the
glandular tissue of the breast. If the contrast is too high,
however, it may preclude visualization of both thin (i.e. the skin
line) and thick tissues (i.e. the inside of the breast) in the same
image due to lack of exposure latitude. Therefore, some
radiologists prefer low contrast mammography films. When the
contrast is low, skin line perceptibility is excellent, but then the
chance of missing possibly malignant breast lesions is high. Thus a
balance has to be found between contrast and exposure latitude and
an example of this approach has been described in US-A 5,290,655.
At first sight tabular grains would be judged not to be able to
satisfy all those requirements, especially with respect to contrast.
Maintaining the said contrast and image definition related
therewith at a constant level is becoming another requirement of
facilities performing mammography. Accordingly, quality control
tests are executed on a regular basis in order to monitor the
consistency of the performance of the X-ray equipment, the image
receptors and the film processor. In order to minimize the
influence of varying film processing time, temperature, chemistry
and replenishment, a preferred mammography film requires a stable
speed and contrast with regard to these processing parameters. As
in addition, there is a general trend in the field of radiology to
shorten the film processing time and likewise in the field of
mammography, being driven by intensified screening programs, the
interest has focused on rapid access of mammograms. As a
consequence, mammography films are preferred which comprise silver
halide crystals that can be processed rapidly and consistently in a
dry-to-dry processing cycle of 90 seconds or less and therefore,
most mammography films today comprise good developable cubic silver
halide crystals. As described in EP-A 0 712 036 such cubic crystals
show a stable speed and contrast upon varying processing parameters,
but said cubic grain emulsions however are characterized by a very
high contrast, resulting in a poor skin line perceptibility.
Especially in rapid processing applications it is very difficult to
obtain the desired low fog, high speed and high covering power
simultaneously. Replacing cubic grain emulsions by tabular grain
emulsions, although being favourable with respect to high covering
power obtainable at moderate coating amounts of silver halide as has
been demonstrated e.g. in US-A 4,414,304, shows the disadvantageous
lower contrast than the contrast obtainable with cubic grains,
besides the appearance of a brown colour hue of developed crystals
and the residual colouration of the processed image, especially in
short processing cycles, due to strong adsorption of huge amounts of
spectral sensitizing dye(s) at the large specific surface area,
characteristic for the said tabular grains.
Making use of a mixture of cubic and tabular grains or of a
multilayer arrangement of cubic and/or tabular grains in order to
provide a good image tone as in EP-A 0 874 275 and in EP-A 0 770 909
respectively is more complex and less interesting from the point of
view of reproducibility of the production process. As tabular grain
emulsions having a high aspect ratio are known to provide, over more
conventional cubic, octahedral or spherical grains, a high covering
power and, as a consequence thereof, a lower coating weight,
manufacturing costs are reduced. Said lower coating weight is
especially preferred if rapid processing applications, preferably
accompanied by low replenishing amounts of developer and fixer, are
required, which is nowadays an ever more returning demand.
Attaining the desired contrast however, even with lower coating
amounts is another problem that should be overcome.
Therefore it is an object of the present invention to provide a
light-sensitive spectrally sensitized {111} tabular silver halide
emulsion having crystals or grains providing the desired contrast
without loss of speed in diagnostic imaging, making use from
(intensifying) screen-film combinations wherein single-side coated
as well as double-side coated materials comprising said tabular
grains are coated, in combination with one or two screens
respectively.
Further objects and advantages of the present invention, which
may be obtained by specific embodiments, will become apparent from
the description hereinafter.
A light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion has thus
been provided, said emulsion comprising a binder and core-shell
tabular grains, wherein said core is more rich in silver bromide
than said shell, characterized in that said grains contain, in the
core thereof representing an amount of precipitated silver halide
extending up to less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide, a
ruthenium complex compound (more preferably a (hexa)cyanate salt
complex of ruthenium) as a sole complex compound providing shallow
electron traps. A single-side or double-side coated silver halide
photo-graphic material has also been disclosed, said material
comprising a support and coated thereon one or both sides
respectively one or more hydrophilic light-sensitive layers, wherein
at least one of said layers comprises a light-sensitive silver
halide emulsion according to the present invention.
Quite unexpectedly it has become clear from our experiments
that when a light-sensitive emulsion is built up as a core-shell
tabular grain emulsion comprising a binder and core-shell tabular
grains or crystals having a ruthenium complex compound as a sole
dopant compound providing shallow electron traps in the core
extending up to less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide
that materials coated in light-sensitive layers with such emulsions
clearly show the desired effect of increased contrast (gradation),
without loss of speed (sensitivity) versus in the absence thereof.
According to the present invention said sole compound providing
shallow electron traps (SET's) in the core-shell tabular grains of
the emulsion according to the present invention is a ruthenium
complex compound, and more particularly, in a more preferred
embodiment, a ruthenium (hexa)cyanate complex compound. In general
a metal ligand complex (as the ruthenium cyanate complex present in
the core of the tabular grains rich in silver bromide) used as sole
shallow electron trap providing complex compound in the said core,
is a compound providing shallow electron traps (SET's) if all
ligands in the metal complex are more electronegative (situated more
to the right side of the spectrophotometrical series), opposite to
those providing more permanent trapping centres when a ligand is
becoming less electronegative whereby the trap depth of the metal
complex dopant will increase. At any time the specific activity of
the ruthenium dopants in silver halide crystals of emulsions
according to the present invention can be clearly demonstrated by
using the EPR (electron paramagnetic resonance technique), the
technique and sample preparation of which has been extensively
described in US-A 5,457,021 by Olm et al and by H.Vercammen,
T.Ceulemans, D.Schoenmakers, P.Moens and D.Vandenbrouclce in Proc.
ICS&T of 49th Ann.Conf., p.54 (Minneapolis, 19-24 May,1996) or by the
ENDOR (electron nuclear double resonance) technique, described in
the same Proc.Ann.Conf., p.56 by P.Moens, H.Vercammen,
D.Vandenbroucke, F.Callens and D.Schoenmakers. Shallowly trapped
photoelectrons indeed give rise to an EPR signal, which is composed
of a single line, with a g value that is characteristic for the
local grain composition. As has been shown by R.S. Eachus, M.T.
Olm, R. Janes and M.C.R. Symons, Phys. Stat. Sol. 152, 583 (1989),
the g value of the shallowly trapped electron in AgCl is 1.880±0.001
and for AgBr is 1.49±0.02. So the g value in EPR is characteristic
for each examined species and can be calculated and measured as
described in, e.g., Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Techniques and
Applications, by Raymond S. Alger, (1968) published by Interscience
publishers, New York. The width of the line, as a function of
temperature and concentration of the added dopant complex, has been
described by H. Vercammen, D. Schoemaker, D. Vandenbroucke,
Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Silver Halide
Imaging, Victoria - BC, Canada, 1997, pp. 125. In that reference
the line width of the EPR signal of shallowly trapped electrons at
20 K is quoted to be 1.0±0.1 mT for a dopant concentration of 1 ppm.
This parameter (line width) can be used as a thorough check of the
concentration of the dopant which is effectively built in.
According to the present invention said compound providing
shallow electron traps is present in amount of from 1 p.p.b. up to
100 p.p.m. versus silver, and, more preferably in an amount of from
10 up to 100 p.p.m.. In a further preferred embodiment of the
present invention the core of the light-sensitive silver halide
photographic emulsion, more rich in silver bromide than the shell,
represents an amount of precipitated silver halide extending up to
less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide, and more
preferably even up to at most 40 % of all silver halide
precipitated.
Ruthenium ion complexes providing shallow electron traps
desired in order to reach the objects of the present invention, also
called dopants, are e.g. those described in an interesting survey of
Research Disclosure, Item 36736 (November 1994). Recommended SET's,
besides the ruthenium (hexa)cyanate complex compound(s) are e.g.
metal-halogen-fluorine complexes, more preferably hexafluoro
coordinated iridium ion complexes described in EP-A 0 945 755, which
are also advantageously added to the emulsion of the present
invention. The complex compound dopants disoclosed therein are
commonly added in significantly lower amounts to the tabular grains
rich in silver bromide coated in emulsion form in one or more
hydrophilic layers of the material according to the present
invention than as e.g. spectral sensitisers and are thereby causing
much less chemical load of the image-forming system of the present
invention. Said dopants can in principle be added in whatever a
stage of the emulsion preparation, provided that those dopants are
not present in a shell outside the core rich in silver bromide and
extending up to less than 50 % (and in a preferred embodiment
outside the core extending up to 40%) of all silver precipitated.
This is clearly opposite to the localized phase of the
cyanocomplexes of metals comprising metals of group VIII in the
surface of the grains as disclosed in EP-A 0 613 044 or just beneath
the surface layer having a thickness in the range of from 20 to 350
Ä as disclosed in EP-A 0 503 736 or in EP-A 0 743 553, situated in
an interior grain portion separated from an iridium containing grain
portion by at least 10 % of the silver forming the grain structure.
Generally dopants have little influence on crystal distributions in
the emulsions but they may be added to cause advantageous effects
with respect to reciprocity, pressure sensitization, etc...
According to the present invention complex ion compounds of
ruthenium are incorporated in a limited part of the core portion,
preferably the ruthenium cyanate salts thereof, and more preferably
the ruthenium hexacyanate salt is particularly recommended as
dopant(s) for the said core-shell tabular grain emulsions rich in
silver bromide: in the presence of a sole complex ion compound as
the preferred [Ru(CN)6]4-, in the core of the core-shell tabular
grain, wherein said core is more rich in silver bromide than the
shell, it is possible to reach the objects of the present invention,
more particularly to reach the desired enhanced contrast without
loss in speed.
The non-uniform distributrion of said sole complex ion
compounds providing shallow electron traps plays a dominant role and
when the tabular grains rich in silver bromide are described as
core-shell tabular grains this means that the core thereof contains
shallow electron trap dopants as ruthenium compounds mentioned
hereinbefore, whereas the shell is completely free thereof. This
further means that in the emulsion crystals according to the present
invention the dopants providing shallow electron traps can be added
from the start of the nucleation step until addition less than 50 %
of the total amount of silver (thus during part of the growth step)
and before addition of at least the other 50 % of silver salt in
order to build up the shell of the core-shell tabular grain, wherein
said shell has a lower content of silver bromide, in that part of
the silver bromide has been replaced by silver iodide and,
optionally by silver chloride, so that the tabular grains have a
silver bromoiodide or bromochloroiodide composition. It may be
advantageous to add hole trapping dopants chosen from carboxylic
(formic) acid (salts) and α-hydroxy sulfenic acid (salts) described
in EP-Application No. 98204079, filed November 30, 1998 in order to
get further improved sensitometric properties. As silver iodide
present in the core-shell tabular grains of the present invention is
divided non-homogeneously over the crystal volume it is preferred
that all silver iodide is concentrated in the outer shell of the
core-shell tabular grain, wherein said outer shell represents at
least 50 % of all silver precipitated and wherein said iodide is
present in an enhanced amount in order to get an average silver
iodide content over the whole grain volume of less than 3 mole %.
In a further preferred embodiment according to the present
invention said grains have silver bromide in an average amount of at
least 95 % and even up to 99 mole % of silver bromide, although even
higher amounts of bromide are not excluded. Further according to the
present invention said grains have silver iodide in an average
amount over the grain volume of at most 3 mole %, more preferably at
most 1 mole %. Although preferred with respect to intrinsic and to
spectral sensitivity it is recommended to limit average iodide
concentrations to low levels as disclosed hereinbefore as higher
concentrations retard development and lead to unsatisfactory
sensitivities. Moreover the velocity of fixation can be disturbed
in that case and as a consequence residual colouration may be
unavoidable.
More details about grain modifying conditions (nucleation step,
growth steps, physical ripening steps, also called Ostwald ripening
steps inbetween or at the end) and adjustments during silver halide
precipitation of tabular grain emulsions and specifically with
respect to the introduction of dopants can be found in Section I-D
of Research Disclosure 38957, published September 1996.
It is clear that special attention should be paid to the way in
which the ruthenium complex compound dopant providing shallow
electron traps are introduced during crystal growth as the stability
of the dopants in complex compounds may be limited, depending on the
solutions wherein the said compounds are available. Therefore said
solution can be introduced by means of a so-called "third-jet" in
order to introduce the dopant in the reaction vessel where rapid
incorporation in the growing crystals is performed. In a preferred
embodiment e.g. said third-jet is adding the dopant solution in the
vicinity of the stirrer, where also new rapidly dissolving fine
grain nuclei are formed which are precipitated further onto growing
tabular crystals rich in silver bromide.
It has further been established that addition of small amounts
of e.g. iridium compounds (as potassium hexachloroiridate (III))
added after ending precipitation and/or in the chemical ripening
step may lead to a positive effect on processing latitude, in that
e.g. less differences in sensitivity and gradation are observed
after fluctuations in developing time within a range of about 5
seconds and in processing temperature within a range of about 10°C.
In a preferred embodiment tabular grains according to the
present invention have a {111} crystal habit with an aspect ratio of
more than 2, an average equivalent crystal diameter of at least 0.5
µm, an average thickness of from 0.06 to 0.30 µm and wherein said
grains account for a total projected area of at least 90 % with
respect to all grains. In an even more preferred embodiment said
tabular grains having a {111} crystal habit have an aspect ratio of
from 5 to 20, an average equivalent crystal diameter of from 0.5 µm
up to 5 µm (more preferably from 0.5 µm up to 3 µm), an average
thickness of from 0.06 to 0.30 µm (more preferably from 0.06 µm up
to 0.2 µm and even more preferably up to 0.15 µm) and wherein said
grains account for a total projected area of at least 90 % and even
more with respect to all grains.
Further according to the present invention the emulsion has
tabular grains having a hexagonal {111} crystal habit with a
procentual variation coefficient on average crystal diameter of 25 %
or less and more preferably 20 % or less.
Emulsions according to the present invention can be prepared as
those described in US-A 5,595,864, but methods, providing relatively
narrow grain size distributions which can be applied are e.g. US-A's
5,290,655 and 5,693,459 and EP-A's 0 518 066 and 0 577 886.
To tabular silver bromo(chloro)iodide emulsion grains, wherein
after precipitation and redispersion said grains are also called
"primitive" or "unripened" as long as no chemically sensitizing
agent is present, addition of chemical ripening agents is further
required in order to make them, in a first step after precipitation,
washing and redispersing procedures sensitive to irradiation
exposure.
With respect to the chemical ripening process besides the
commonly used sulphur and gold compounds the use of selenium
sensitizers has been promoted, especially during the last decade,
and even more recently tellurium compounds are frequently
recommended. Patent literature related with the chemical ripening of
tabular emulsion grains rich in silver bromide can be found e.g. in
EP-A's 0 476 345, 0 831 363, 0 862 088 and 0 895 121 and in US-A's
5,004,679; 5,348,850; 5,654,134; 5,773,901; 5,807,667, without
however being limited thereto.
Preferred unstable selenium compounds are e.g. those selected
from the group consisting of substituted selenoureum, substituted
triphenylphosphine selenide, substituted and unsubstituted triphenylorthophosphate
selenide and substituted selenothiazine compounds.
Said selenium sensitisers are preferably used together with
other sensitisers as at least gold and optionally sulphur.
Especially useful labile compounds providing sulphur are therefore
e.g. sodium thiosulphate, tetramethyl-thiodithioacetic acid diamide
and further dimethylamino-dithiomercaptane, thiosulphates or
thiosulphonates. Other useful compounds which may be applied are
those as described e.g. in "Chimie et Physique Photographique" by
P. Glafkides, in "Photographic Emulsion Chemistry" by G.F. Duffin,
in "Making and Coating Photographic Emulsion" by V.L. Zelikman et
al, and in "Die Grundlagen der Photographischen Prozesse mit
Silberhalogeniden" edited by H. Frieser and published by Akademische
Verlagsgesellschaft (1968).
As described in said literature chemical sensitization can be
carried out by effecting the ripening in the presence of small
amounts of compounds containing sulphur as e.g. thiosulphate,
thiocyanate, thioureas; sulphites, mercapto compounds, rhodamines
etc.., wherein combinations of gold-sulphur ripeners together with
the required selenium sensitisers are the most preferred. Addition
of tellurium compounds as e.g. tellurosulphate, tellurocyanate,
telluroureas in very small amounts is thereby however not excluded.
More recently used tellurium compounds have e.g. been described in
US-A's 5,348,850; 5,541,047; 5,654,134. Further reductors as e.g.
tin compounds as described in GB-A 789,823, amines, hydrazine
derivatives, formamidine-sulphinic acids, and silane compounds may
be used, although care should be taken in order to prevent the
emulsion from fog formation in an uncontrollable way. Normal
amounts of selenium compounds are in the range from 1 x 10-5 - 1 x
10-7 moles per mole of silver, whereas normal amounts of gold
compounds (as gold chloride or gold thiocyanate) are in the range
from 1 x 10-5 to 2.5 x 10-5 moles per mole of silver.
It may be recommended to use small amounts of reducing agents
in order to counterbalance the restraining actions from spectral
sensitizers, fog-restrainers or stabilizers as e.g. substituted
heterocyclic mercapto compounds described in US-A 5,242,791. Silver
solvents may have a regulating role therein as e.g. thiocyanate
ions. It is a common method to add chemical sensitizers after
redispersion. Before starting chemical sensitization the surface of
the tabular silver halide grains rich in silver bromide may be
treated with slightly oxidizing compounds as e.g. toluene thiosulphonic
acid and/or corresponding salts thereof in order to reduce
small silver specks to grow to fog centers in an uncontrolled way.
In general terms light-sensitive tabular {111} silver halide
grains rich in silver bromide may be spectrally sensitised with
methine dyes such as those described by F.M. Hamer in "The Cyanine
Dyes and Related Compounds", 1964, John Wiley & Sons. Dyes that may
be used for the purpose of spectral sensitisation include cyanine
dyes, merocyanine dyes, complex cyanine dyes, complex merocyanine
dyes, homopolar cyanine dyes, hemicyanine dyes, styryl dyes and
hemioxonol dyes. Spectral sensitization of said tabular grains or
crystals, generally performed before or at last simultaneously with
the chemical sensitization step proceeds with spectrally sensitizing
compounds selected from the group consisting of benzimidazoles,
benzoxazoles, or a combination thereof. In order to improve speed
for the complex metal ion doped tabular silver haldie emulsion
grains rich in silver bromide spectral sensitization with a
combination of benzimidazolo- and benzoxazolo-carbocyanines is
preferred provided that absorption characteristics of the said
combination of those green light-absorbing spectral sensitisers are
such that spectral sensitization occurs in the preferred wavelength
range between 520 and 580 nm, with a maximum absorption between 540
and 550 nm. An example of a useful spectral sensitiser of the
oxacarbocyanine type is anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphobutyl)-9-ethyloxacarbocyanine
hydroxide or anhydro-5,5'-di-chloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphopropyl)-9-ethyloxacarbocyanine
hydroxide. A
suitable mixture or combination of spectral sensitisers of the oxa- and
imidacarbocyanine type is anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphobutyl)-9-ethyl
oxacarbocyanine hydroxide or anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-sulphopropyl)-9-ethyloxacarbocyanine
hydroxide
together with anhydro-5,5'-dicyano-1,1'-diethyl-3,3'-di(2-acetoxy-ethyl)ethyl-imidacarbocyanine
bromide.
Specific combinations of imidacarbocyanines and oxacarbocyanines
which can be useful as spectral sensitizers to be added to emulsions
of the present invention have been described in EP-Application
No. 98200061, filed January 13, 1998 and in EP-A's 0 443 453, 0 608
955 and 0 809 139 and in US-A's 5,296,345 and 5,338,655. Specific
sensitizations with green-sensitizing imida-oxacarbo-cyanines have
e.g. been described in US-A's 4, 594,317; 4,675,279; 4,701,405;
5,219,723; 5,376,523; 5,462,850. Spectral sensitizers having
asymmetrical heterocycles may be useful and may even be preferred
with respect to improvements in residual colouration after
processing. Unsymmetrically chain substituted oxacarbocyanine dyes
and/or imidacarbocyanine dyes suitable to improve dye stain and
spectral sensitivity in the green short wavelength region have e.g.
been given in JP-A 03-048235. Supersensitization with a symmetrical
oxacarbocyanine dye in combination with a carbocyanine dye of e.g.
the oxazole-imidazole type has been disclosed in US-A's 4,594,317
and 4,659,654. Specifically spectral sensitization with N-fluoroalkyl
substituted imidacarbocyanine dyes has been described in US-A's
4,675,279; 5,196,299; 5,210,014; and 5,466,822. It is clear
that the choice of the spectral sensitzer or spectral sensitizing
combination strongly depends on the application (silver halide
photographic material) wherein the emulsion is used: coated in an
emulsion layer of a material for exposure to blue/ultraviolet light
clearly requires spectral sensitization to the blue/ultraviolet
range of the wavelength spectrum as has e.g. been described for
blue-sensitized emulsions and materials in EP-A 0 712 034 and as has
been described in EP-Application Nos. 99201189 and 99201190, both
simultaneously filed April 16, 1999.
In classical emulsion preparation spectral sensitization
traditionally follows the completion of chemical sensitization. It
can however be advantageous to add an amount of a small amount of
spectral sensitizing dye to the emulsion crystals just before
cooling of the dispersion at the end of the growth stage, but in
principle the addition of said dye may be performed at any stage of
the precipitation, during or after redispersing or before, during or
after chemical ripening. The addition can further be performed in
one or more portions. So in US-A 5,286,621 it has been shown that
spectral sensitizer is added in amounts ranging from 10-5 to 5 x 10-3
moles per mole of silver halide as a whole after completion of the
precipitation or in several fractions during and after precipitation.
An important factor influencing growth of silver nuclei in the
preparation of tabular grains rich in silver bromide is the choice
of and the amount of protective colloid present in the reaction
vessel or added simultaneously with one of the solutions added
thereto during nucleation and further, eventually, after nucleation,
during physical ripening before and/or during growth of the nuclei
formed. So for emulsions according to the present invention said
binder is gelatin, colloidal silica sol or cationic oxidized starch.
The most well-known and practically used hydrophilic colloidal
binder during precipitation of tabular grains rich in silver bromide
is gelatin. The preparation of conventional lime-treated or acid
treated gelatin has been described in e.g. "The Science and
Technology of Gelatin", edited by A.G. Ward and A. Courts, Academic
Press 1977, page 295 and next pages. The gelatin can also be
enzyme-treated as described in Bull. Soc. Sci. Phot. Japan, No 16,
page 30 (1966). A preparation method of tabular grain emulsions
wherein in the grain growth process use is made of gelatin
derivatives with chemically modified NH2-groups and wherein said
gelatin has a specific methionine content has been described in e.g.
EP-A 0 697 618. Gelatin may, however, be replaced in part or
integrally by synthetic, semi-synthetic, or natural polymers.
Synthetic substitutes for gelatin are e.g. polyvinyl alcohol, poly-N-vinyl
pyrrolidone, polyvinyl imidazole, polyvinyl pyrazole,
polyacryl-amide, polyacrylic acid, and derivatives thereof, in
particular copolymers thereof. Natural substitutes for gelatin are
e.g. other proteins such as zein, albumin and casein, cellulose,
saccharides, starch, and alginates. In general, the semi-synthetic
substitutes for gelatin are modified natural products e.g. gelatin
derivatives obtained by conversion of gelatin with alkylating or
acylating agents, by grafting of polymerizable monomers on gelatin
or prehardened gelatins with blocked functional groups as a
consequence of this prehardening treatment, cellulose derivatives
such as hydroxyalkyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, phthaloyl
cellulose, and cellulose sulphates and even potato starch, whether
or not modified as e.g. cationic oxidized starch. Further synthetic
high molecular compounds described in JP-B-52-16365, Journal of The
Society of Photographic Science and Technology of Japan, Vol. 29(1),
17, 22(1966), ibid., Vol. 30(1), 10, 19(1967), ibid., Vol. 30(2),
17(1967), and ibid., Vol. 33(3), 24(1967) may be used as a
dispersion medium. Also the crystal habit restraining agent
described in EP-A 0 534 395 may be used. Part of gelatin may
further be replaced with a synthetic or natural high-molecular
material.
An interesting substitute for gelatin is silica which has been
described in the published EP-A's 0 392 092, 0 517 961, 0 528 476
and 0 649 051 and 0 704 749. More specifically tabular grain
emulsions prepared in colloidal silica as a protective colloid have
been described in EP-A 0 677 773.
At the end of the precipitation, following all possible
physical ripening steps, the emulsion mixture is normally cooled to
about 40°C, before or after adding a flocculate being a polymeric
compound as e.g. polystyrene sulphonic acid, providing as a anionic
polymer a behaviour depending on pH. Under carefully controlled
conditions of addition and stirring rate the pH of the said
dispersing medium is adjusted with an acid to a value in order to
get a qualitatively good flocculate. Said flocculate may become
decanted and washed with demineralised water in order to remove the
soluble salts. In the alternative an ultrafiltration washing
procedure may be applied as has been disclosed e.g. in Research
Disclosure, Vol. 102, Oct. 1972, Item 10208, Research Disclosure
Vol. 131, March, Item 13122 and Mignot US-A 4,334,012.
Said ultrafiltration technique may be applied on-line during
the whole precipitation, in order to reduce the increasing amount of
water, thus avoiding dilution of the reaction vessel and increasing
amounts of soluble salts like the mainly occurring potassium
nitrate. Examples thereof have been described e.g. in EP-A 0 577
886. When the emulsion becomes washed by diafiltration making use
therefor of a semipermeable membrane, a technique also called
ultrafiltration, it is not necessary to use polymeric flocculating
agents that may disturb the coating composition stability before,
during or after the coating procedure. Such procedures are
disclosed e.g. in Research Disclosure Vol. 102, Oct. 1972, Item
10208, Research Disclosure Vol. 131, March, Item 13122 and US-A
4,334,012. Redispersion may further be performed by addition of
extra hydrophilic colloid. As a consequence values of gesi and/or
sisi may be enhanced up to values desired in order to prepare stable
coating solutions. It is clear however that any useful protective
colloid cited hereinbefore as an alternative of gelatin or gelatin
in modified form may be used.
Emulsions having tabular silver halide grains rich in silver
bromide according to the present invention which have been prepared
in order to be coated in light-sensitive silver halide layers of a
film material should be stabilized in a suitable manner in order to
provide a good fog-sensitivity(speed) relationship. A suitable way
to stabilize such emulsions has e.g. been described in US-A
5,654,134 wherein benzothiazolium compounds, mercapto containing
agents and disulfides have been described; in US-A 5,573,901,
wherein thiosulfo compounds have been described in favour of
pressure reduction and storage fog; in US-A 5,374,513, wherein non-labile
dichalcogenides, in US-A 5,077,189, wherein dihydroxybenzene
compounds or in US-A 5,114,838 have been used as have been used as
antifoggants, as wel as in EP-A 0 465 728, wherein mercapto-substituted
pyrimidine derivatives have been proposed as
stabilizers. The silver halide emulsions according to the present
invention may further comprise as compounds preventing the formation
of a high minimum density during the production or storage of
photographic materials or during the photographic treatment thereof
the heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compounds such as
benzothiazolium salts, nitroimidazoles, nitrobenzimidazoles,
chlorobenzimidazoles, bromobenzimidazoles, mercaptothiazoles,
mercaptobenzothiazoles, mercaptobenzimidazoles, mercaptothiadiazoles,
aminotriazoles, benzotriazoles (preferably 5-methylbenzotriazole),
nitrobenzotriazoles, mercaptotetrazoles, in
particular 1-phenyl-5-mercapto-tetrazole, mercaptopyrimidines,
mercaptotriazines, benzothiazoline-2-thione, oxazoline-thione,
triazaindenes, tetrazaindenes and pentazaindenes, especially those
described by Birr in Z. Wiss. Phot. 47 (1952), pages 2-58,
triazolopyrimidines such as those described in GB-A 1,203,757, GB-A
1,209,146, JP-B 77/031738 and GB-A 1,500,278, and 7-hydroxy-s-triazolo-[1,5-a]-pyrimidines
as described in US-A 4,727,017, and
other compounds such as benzenethiosulphonic acid, benzenethiosulphinic
acid and benzenethiosulphonic acid amide. Other compounds
which can be used as fog-inhibiting compounds are those described in
Research Disclosure No. 17643 (1978), Chaptre VI. These fog-inhibiting
agents or stabilizers can be added to the silver halide
emulsion prior to, during, or after the ripening thereof and
mixtures of two or more of these compounds can be used.
The binder of the layers, especially when gelatin is used as a
binder, can be forehardened with appropriate hardening agents such
as those of the epoxide type, those of the ethylenimine type, those
of the vinylsulfone type, e.g. 1,3-vinylsulphonyl-2-propanol or di(vinylsulphonyl)-methane,
vinylsulphonyl-ether compounds,
vinylsulphonyl compounds having soluble groups, chromium salts like
e.g. chromium acetate and chromium alum, aldehydes as e.g.
formaldehyde, glyoxal, and glutaraldehyde, N-methylol compounds as
e.g. dimethylolurea and methyloldimethylhydantoin, dioxan
derivatives e.g. 2,3-dihydroxy-dioxan, active vinyl compounds e.g.
1,3,5-triacryloyl-hexahydro-s-triazine, active halogen compounds
e.g. 2,4-dichloro-6-hydroxy-s-triazine, and mucohalogenic acids e.g.
mucochloric acid and mucophenoxychloric acid. These hardeners can
be used alone or in combination. The binder can also be hardened
with fast-reacting hardeners such as carbamoylpyridinium salts as
disclosed in US-A's 4,063,952 and with the onium compounds as
disclosed in EP-A 0 408 143.
According to the present invention a light-sensitive silver
halide photographic film material is further provided, wherein said
material comprises a support and on one or both sides thereof at
least one light-sensitive emulsion layer having a core-shell tabular
grain emulsion as disclosed hereinbefore.
The photographic material comprising emulsions according to the
present invention may further comprise various kinds of surface-active
agents in the light-sensitive emulsion layer(s) or in at
least one other hydrophilic colloid layer. Suitable surface-active
agents include non-ionic agents such as saponins, alkylene oxides,
e.g., polyethylene glycol, polyethylene glycol/polypropylene glycol
condensation products, polyethylene glycol alkyl ethers or
polyethylene glycol alkylaryl ethers, polyethylene glycol esters,
polyethylene glycol sorbitan esters, polyalkylene glycol alkylamines
or alkylamides, silicone-polyethylene oxide adducts, glycidol
derivatives, fatty acid esters of polyhydric alcohols and alkyl
esters of saccharides, anionic agents comprising an acid group such
as a carboxyl, sulpho, phospho, sulphuric or phosphoric ester group;
ampholytic agents such as aminoacids, aminoalkyl sulphonic acids,
aminoalkyl sulphates or phosphates, alkyl betaines, and amine-N-oxides;
and cationic agents such as alkylamine salts, aliphatic,
aromatic, or heterocyclic quaternary ammonium salts, aliphatic or
heterocyclic ring-containing phosphonium or sulphonium salts. Such
surface-active agents can be used for various purposes, e.g. as
coating aids, as compounds preventing electric charges, as compounds
improving film transport in automatic film handling equipment, as
compounds facilitating dispersive emulsification, as compounds
preventing or reducing adhesion, and as compounds improving
photographic properties such as higher contrast, sensitization and
development acceleration. Especially when rapid processing
conditions are important, development acceleration may be useful,
which can be accomplished with the aid of various compounds,
preferably polyoxyalkylene derivatives having a molecular weight of
at least 400 such as those described in e.g. US-A's 3,038,805;
4,038,075 and 4,292,400. Especially preferred developing accelerators
are recurrent thioether groups containing polyoxyethylenes as
described in DE 2,360,878, EP-A's 0 634 688 and 0 674 215. The same
or different or a mixture of different developing accelerators may
be added to at least one of the hydrophilic layers at the emulsion
side. It may be advantageous to partially substitute the
hydrophilic colloid binder, preferably gelatin, of the light-sensitive
silver halide emulsion layer or of an hydrophilic colloid
layer in water-permeable relationship therewith by suitable amounts
of dextran or dextran derivatives to improve the covering power of
the silver image formed and to provide a higher resistance to
abrasion in wet condition.
The photographic material comprising emulsions of the present
invention may further comprise various other additives such as
compounds improving the dimensional stability of the photographic
material, UV-absorbers, spacing agents, lubricants, plasticizers,
antistatic agents, etc. Suitable additives for improving the
dimensional stability are i.a. dispersions of a water-soluble or
hardly soluble synthetic polymer e.g. polymers of alkyl
(meth)acrylates, alkoxy(meth)acrylates, glycidyl (meth)acrylates,
(meth)acrylamides, vinyl esters, acrylonitriles, olefins and
styrenes, or copolymers of the above with acrylic acids, methacrylic
acids, α-β-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, hydroxyalkyl
(meth)acrylates, sulphoalkyl (meth)acrylates, and styrene sulphonic
acids. Suitable UV-absorbers are e.g. aryl-substituted benzotriazole
compounds as described in US-A 3,533,794, 4-thiazolidone
compounds as described in US-A's 3,314,794 and 3,352,681, benzophenone
compounds as described in JP-A 2784/71, cinnamic ester
compounds as described in US-A's 3,705,805 and 3,707,375, butadiene
compounds as described in US-A 4,045,229, and benzoxazole compounds
as described in US-A 3,700,455.
In general, the average particle size of spacing agents is
comprised between 0.2 and 10 µm. Spacing agents can be soluble or
insoluble in alkali. Alkali-insoluble spacing agents usually remain
permanently in the photographic material, whereas alkali-soluble
spacing agents usually are removed in an alkaline processing bath.
Suitable spacing agents can be made i.a. of polymethyl methacrylate,
of copolymers of acrylic acid and methyl methacrylate, and of
hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose hexahydrophthalate. Other suitable
spacing agents have been described in US-A 4,614,708.
Compounds which can be used as a plasticizer for the
hydrophilic colloid layers are acetamide or polyols such as
trimethylolpropane, pentanediol, butanediol, ethylene glycol and
glycerine. Further, a polymer latex is preferably incorporated into
the hydrophilic colloid layer for the purpose of improving the anti-pressure
properties, e.g. a homopolymer of acrylic acid alkyl ester
or a copolymer thereof with acrylic acid, a copolymer of styrene and
butadiene, and a homopolymer or copolymer consisting of monomers
having an active methylene group.
The photographic material comprising emulsions according to the
present invention may comprise an antistatic layer to avoid static
discharges during coating, processing and other handling of the
material. Such antistatic layer may be an outermost coating like
the protective layer or an afterlayer or a stratum of one or more
antistatic agents or a coating applied directly to the film support
or other support and overcoated with a barrier or gelatin layer.
Antistatic compounds suitable for use in such layers are e.g.
vanadium pentoxide soles, tin oxide soles or conductive polymers
such as polyethylene oxides or a polymer latex and the like.
Preferably, the photographic materials comprising emulsions
according to the present invention are characterized by a neutral
silver image tone, obtained after exposure and processing. It is
well known that thin tabular emulsion grains may produce a brownish,
yellow or even reddish image tone and therefore, tabular grains
having an average thickness of 0.2 µm or more are preferred. On the
other hand, a thickness between 0.20 and 0.3 µm may is not always
preferred since thicker grains are characterized by a lower covering
power of the developed silver, requiring a large amount of silver
halide in the photographic material in order to obtain a
satisfactory maximum density. Methods in order to prepare thicker
tabular grains may however be applied as has already been described
in US-A's 4,801,522; 5,028,521 and 5,013,641 and EP-A 0 569 075.
The non-neutral silver image colour of materials comprising
emulsions according to the present invention can be corrected by
increasing the optical density in the red region of the visible
spectrum by adding suitable dyes to the support or any coated layer.
This non-image wise colour correction method has been disclosed in
references as e.g. JP-A's 03100645; 01029838; 01312536; 03103846;
03094249; 03255435; 61285445; EP-A 0 271 309 and in US-A 4,861,702.
This method however may result in an excessive base+fog density of
the photographic material and therefore, an alternative way consists
in an image-wise colour correction by using colour-forming
developers, which are blue coloured in their oxidized form.
Examples thereof are summarized in JP-A 03153234; 03154043 and
03154046. In JP-A's 03156447 and 03157645 the adsorption of a blue
coloured dye as a function of exposure has further been disclosed.
Another method to improve the image tone of tabular grain
emulsions according to the present invention consists of mixing them
with cubic grains containing chloride as disclosed in EP-A 0 770
909. In addition, the photographic material comprising emulsions
according to the present invention may comprise in an adjacent
layer, but more preferably in the emulsion layer(s), a mercapto-substituted
compound consisting of a group of atoms necessary to
form a 5- or 6-membered ring. The compounds of the above formula are
preferably added in an amount from 10-6 to 10-2, more preferably 10-5
to 10-3 mole per mole of silver in the emulsion layer(s). Representative
examples of these compounds are given in US-A 5,290,655.
According to the present invention emulsions are thus provided
for use in light-sensitive layers of a photographic material as e.g.
a colour photographic material or a black-and-white photographic
material, a micrographic film material, a film material for aviation
photography, cinéfilm, hardcopy films, non-destructive testing
materials, laser films, graphic and reprographic films, and
radiographic film materials.
Single-side or double-side coated silver halide photographic
materials comprising a support and coated thereon one or both sides
respectively one or more hydrophilic light-sensitive layers, wherein
at least one of said layers comprises a light-sensitive silver
halide emulsion according to the present invention are more
particularly provided.
More preferably according to the present invention said
photographic material comprises on only one side of the support only
one hydrophilic light-sensitive layer comprising an emulsion as
disclosed herein, wherein light-sensitive tabular grains have a
coverage of from 3.0 to 9.0 g/m2, more preferably from 5.0 to 9.0
g/m2, expressed as silver nitrate. The said material is particularly
suitable for use in radiographic applications, and, more preferably,
in mammographic applications wherein the desired contrast can thus
be attained as set forth in the objects of the present invention.
Said radiographic film materials are, according to the present
invention, used in radiographic screen/film combinations comprising
a light-sensitive silver halide photographic film material as
disclosed hereinbefore together with a supporting or self-supporting
X-ray intensifying screen, characterized in that said supported or
self-supporting X-ray intensifying screen essentially consists of
luminescent phosphor particles emitting green light. In a preferred
embodiment a radiographic screen/film combination is provided
wherein said luminescent phosphor is Gd2O2S:Tb. Moreover a
radiographic screen/film combination is provided wherein the total
amount of coated silver halide in said film, expressed as an
equivalent amount of silver nitrate, is less than 7.5 g/m2.
For processing said film material after exposure with X-rays,
preferably an automatically operating apparatus is used provided
with a system for automatic replenishment of the processing
solutions. The processing dry-to-dry within a short processing time
of from 30 to 90 seconds and more preferably from 30 seconds to less
than 60 seconds of materials coated from low amounts of silver is
made possible by the steps of
- developing said material in a developer without hardening agent;
- fixing said material in a fixer,optionally without hardening agent;
- rinsing and drying said material.
A normally used configuration in the processing apparatus shows
the following consecutive tank units corresponding with, as
consecutive solutions: developer-fixer-rinse water. Recent
developments however have shown, that from the viewpoint of ecology
and especially with respect to reduction of replenishing amounts, as
consecutive solutions the sequence developer-fixer-fixer-rinse
water-rinse water is preferred. One washing step between developing
and fixation and one at the end before drying may also be present.
As ecology and low replenishing amounts are main topics with
respect to the present invention use is made of concentrated
hardener free processing solutions in one single package. Examples
thereof have been disclosed e.g. in US-A's 5,187,050 and 5,296,342.
Especially preferred developers comprising ecologically
acceptable developing agents such as ascorbic acid and derivatives
thereof have been described in EP-A 0 732 619 and in US-A's
5,236,816; 5,593,817 and 5,604,082. Instead of or partially
substituting (e.g. in a ratio by weight of from 1:1 up to 9:1) the
ecologically questionable "hydroquinone" (iso)ascorbic acid, 1-ascorbic
acid and tetramethyl reductic acid are preferred as main
developing agent in the developer. Said developing agents have
further been described in EP-A's 0 461 783, 0 498 968, 0 690 343, 0
696 759, 0 704 756, 0 732 619, 0 731 381 and 0 731 382; in US-A's
5,474,879 and 5,498,511 and in Research Disclosure (further called
"RD") No 371052, published March 1, 1995, wherein a more general
formula covering the formula of said developing agents has been
represented. In order to reduce "sludge formation" which is
favoured by solubilizing agents like sulphites, present in the
developer as preservatives, a particularly suitable developer
solution is the one comprising a reduced amount of sulphite and
ascorbic acid which acts as a main developer and anti-oxidant as
well and which is called "low-sludge" developer as has e.g. been
described in EP-A 0 851 282 and in EP-Applications Nos. 98203412 and
98204079, filed October 8 and November 30, 1998, respectively.
In favour of ecological fixation the presence of aluminum ions
should be reduced, and more preferably, no aluminum ions should be
present. This is moreover in favour of the absence of "sludge"
formation, a phenomenon which leads to pi-line defects when high
amounts of silver are coated in the light-sensitive layers.
Measures in order to reduce "sludge-formation" have further been
described in US-A's 5,447,817; 5,462,831 and 5,518,868. A particularly
suitable fixer solution comprises an amount of less than 25 g
of potassium sulphite per liter without the presence of acetic acid
wherein said fixer has a pH value of at least 4.5, in order to make
the fixer solution quasi odourless as illustrated in EP-A 0 908 764.
If however aluminum ions are present in the fixer composition for
whatever a reason, the presence of α-ketocarboxylic acid compounds
is recommended as has been described in EP-A's 0 620 483 and 0 726
491 as well as in RD No. 16768, published March 1978.
It is possible to use sodium thiosulphate as a fixing agent,
thus avoiding the ecologically undesirable ammonium ions normally
used. For low coating amounts of emulsion crystals rich in chloride
a fixation time which is reduced to about 2 to 10 seconds can be
attained. Moreover regeneration is kept to a minimum, especially in
the processing of materials coated from very low amounts of emulsion
crystals rich in silver chloride. Preferred minimum regeneration or
replenishment amounts are from 20 to 200 ml/m2 , more preferred from
20 to 100 ml/m2, and still more preferred from 20 to 50 ml/m2 of
developed material. Materials coated from higher amounts of silver
will require the higher amounts of replenisher but in most practical
cases replenishment amounts of less than 200 ml/m2 are attainable.
Replenishment of a developer comprising ascorbic acid or derivatives
thereof and a 3-pyrazolidone derivative has been described in EP-A 0
573 700, wherein a method is disclosed for processing with constant
activity image-wise exposed silver halide photographic material
comprising the steps of developing photographic material in a
continuous automatic way by means of a developing solution
containing an ascorbic acid analogue or derivative and a 3-pyrazolidone
derivative as developing agents and replenishing said
developing solution by means of at least one replenishing solution
having a higher pH than the developing solution. In an alternative
method the replenisher is added as a powder. Other references
related therewith are EP-A 0 552 511; US-A 5,503,965 and further in
EP-A 0 660 175, wherein a method of replenishment control is
described. For the fixer preferred minimum regeneration or
replenishment amounts are also from about 20 to 200 ml/m2, more
preferred from 20 to 100 ml/m2 and still more preferred from 20 to 50
ml/m2 of developed material. When aluminum ions are present in the
fixer solution in order to effect hardening, it is necessary to
adjust the pH of the fixer in the range from 4.2 to 4.6 in order to
get the highest hardening reactivity and to suppress swelling with
washing water in the washing or rinsing step. For hardened
materials having a swelling degree of the hydrophilic layers of less
than 250 % and more preferably of less than 200 % it is not required
for the fixer pH to held constant in the pH range from 4.2 to 4.6 as
mentioned before: in order to reduce irritating smell from sulphite
ions in aqueous acidic medium which lead to sulphur dioxide vapour
it is recommended to enhance pH to a value of 4.65 up to 5.00. A
process whereby the quality of the fixer remains at an optimum level
has been described in EP-A 0 872 764.
Although it is possible to use whatever a processing unit
adapted to the requirements described hereinbefore to reach the
objectives concerning a perfect link between rapid processing and
ecology, the objects of this invention concerning processing have
e.g. been realised in the processing unit CURIX HT 530, trade name
product marketed by Agfa-Gevaert
Further, according to the present invention, particularly with
respect to mammographic applications a radiological method for
obtaining a diagnostic image for mammography is offered, said method
comprising the steps of
According to the present invention, the same method is applied
with respect to e.g. chest-imaging applications, apart for
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 appending claims.
To a solution of 7.5 g of an oxidized gelatin in 3 l of
demineralized water, adjusted to a pBr value of 2.39 by adding KBr
and a pH of 1.8 by adding H2SO4, were added by a double jet method
aqueous solutions of 1.96 M AgNO3 (hereinafter referred to as S1) and
1.96 M KBr (hereinafter referred to as S2): 7.35 ml of S1 and 7.35
ml of S2 were added in a time interval of 9 seconds. During this
period, the reaction mixture was maintained at 45°C. When the
addition was completed, stirring continued during 2 minutes and
then, temperature was increased up to 70°C over a period of 25
minutes, followed by the addition, after another time of 2 minutes,
of 500 ml of an aqueous gelatinous solution of 10 wt % of gelatin.
After another time interval 2 minutes after said addition a NaOH
solution was added over a time period of one minute in order to
adjust pH to 6.0. Then stirring continued for 6 minutes at a
temperature held constant at 70°C and S2 was added by a single jet
at 7.5 ml/min over a period of 5.5 minutes. Then S1, at a constant
flow rate of 7.5 ml/min, and S2 at a flow rate, controlled in order
to maintain pAg at 8.85, were added in a double jet over a period of
1 minute. This double jet was continued during another period of 33
minutes and 22 seconds, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly
increased up to 23.1 ml/min and pAg was maintained at 8.85. This
period was called "first growth step". 5 minutes after the
completion of said double jet addition, S1 was added at 7.5 ml/min
during 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Then another double jet started of
S1 at 7.5 ml/min during 1 minute and an aqueous solution of 1.93 M
KBr and 0.03 M KI (solution S3) at a controlled flow rate to
maintain pAg at 7.38. This double jet was continued during another
period of 41 minutes and 2 seconds, while the flow rate of S1 was
linearly increased from said 7.5 ml/min up to 36.9 ml/min and pAg
was maintained at 7.4. The average grain size of the silver
bromoioide tabular {111} emulsion grains thus prepared, expressed as
equivalent volume diameter, was 0.70 µm, the average thickness was
0.21 µm and the variation coefficient was 0.25. The iodide content
was 1 mol %.
After washing, gelatin and water were added in order to obtain
a silver halide content of 245 g/kg, expressed as AgNO3, and a
gelatin content of 83 g/kg. To 2 kg of this emulsion, of which pH
was adjusted to 5.5, were added consecutively 4 ml of a 10 wt.% KSCN
solution, 0.2 ml of a 4.76x10-3 M solution of sodium
toluenethiosulphonate in methanol, 780 ml of a 0.25 wt.% solution of
anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-butyl-4-sulphonate)-9-ethylbenzoxa-carbocyanine
triethylammonium salt, 9 mg sodium thiosulphate,
10 ml of a solution containing 1.46x10-3 M chloro auric acid and
1.58x10-2 M ammonium rhodanide, and finally 10 ml of a 1 wt.%
solution of 1-(p-carboxyphenyl)-5-mercapto-tetrazole and this
mixture was chemically ripened during 4 hours at 48°C. After
cooling, a preservative was added.
The preparation scheme was the same as for the preparation of
tabular emulsion TC1, except for the first growth step wherein the
double jet precipation was continued during another period of 22
minutes and 24 seconds instead of 33 minutes and 22 seconds as for
TC1, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly increased up to 18.0
ml/min and while the flow rate of S2 was adjusted in order to
maintain a pAg of 8.85. After the completion of said double jet
addition, S1 was added at 7.5 ml/min during 10 minutes while
introducing over the same period 147 ml of an aqueous solution of
hexacyanoruthenate trihydrate (containing 0.419 g/l of the dopant)
and S2 at a flow rate in order to maintain the pAg value constant.
Introducing such an amount of dopant solution, corresponding with a
locally added amount of 1000 p.p.m., was performed in order to have
a global amount of dopant corresponding with 50 p.p.m. over the
whole volume of the tabular grain. A second growth step was then
performed by double jet precipitation of 150 ml of solution S1 at a
starting rate of 7.5 ml/min. and an end rate of 9 ml/min., adding
solution S2 at a rate in order to maintain a pAg of 8.85. A
following (third) neutralization step was performed by introduction
of solution S1 by single-jet at a rate of 7.5 ml/min. during 7 min.
30 s and was imediately followed by another double jet addition of
S1 at 7.5 ml/min during 1 minute and an aqueous solution of 1.93 M
KBr and 0.03 M KI (solution S3) at a controlled flow rate to
maintain pAg at 7.38. This double jet was continued during another
period of 41 minutes and 2 seconds, while the flow rate of S1 was
linearly increased from said 7.5 ml/min up to 36.9 ml/min and pAg
was maintained at 7.4. The average grain size of the silver
bromoioide tabular {111} emulsion grains thus prepared, expressed as
equivalent volume diameter, was 0.70 µm, the average thickness was
0.21 µm and the variation coefficient was 0.25. The iodide content
was 1 mol %. The chemical ripening was performed in just the same
way (same amounts of chemicals and order of addition) as described
for emulsion TC1. The dopant agent was thus added after a relative
amount of precipitated silver of about 1/5 of the total amount, in
an annular ring corresponding with a precipitated amount of about 5
% of silver nitrate added and before growing the tabular grains with
an amount of about 75 % of the total amount of precipitated silver.
Same emulsion as TI1, except for the local addition at the same
moment in the preparation scheme of 2000 p.p.m. in order to get a
global amount of the same dopant of 100 p.p.m. instead of 50 p.p.m..
The same chemical ripening (order of addition, amounts of
chemical ripening agents) was applied as for tabular grain emulsions
TC1 and TI1. Following coating agents, summarized in Table 1, were
added to the emulsion before coating the emulsion layer.
Coating agents have further been summarized hereinafter in Table 2,
and were added to the protective coating before coating the
protective antistress layer.
In Table 2 hereinafter (a) represents Polythioether A which is
a modified poly-epichloorhydrine having an average chain length of
approximately 20 monomer units and of which about 50% of the
chloride groups have been replaced by a
Compound | Amounts per m2 |
Gelatin | 1.1 g |
Polymethylmethacrylate spacing agent (average particle diameter 3 mm) | 15 mg |
chromium acetate | 5.5 mg |
4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene | 82 mg |
bis-metasulphophenyl-disulphide | 4 mg |
CF3-(CF2)6-COOH.NH3 | 7.5 mg |
CF3-(CF2)6-CONH-(CH2CH2O)17-20-H | 19 mg |
Phenol | 150 mg |
1-phenyl-4-methyl-3-pyrazolidone | 0.13 mg |
Mobilcer Q (a paraffin wax, trade name product from MOBIL OIL) | 25 ml |
polythioether A (a) | 5 mg |
formaldehyde (added just before coating) | 100 mg |
The photographic materials according to these examples comprise
one emulsion layer and one protective layer. The coating solutions
of the emulsion layers were prepared by adding solutions of the
compounds indicated in Table 1 to the melted emulsion while
stirring. The coating solution of the protective layer is given in
Table 2. After adjusting pH to 6.7, the viscosity and surface
tension of the coating solutions were optimised according to the
requirements of the coating method. The emulsion layer(s) and the
protective layer were coated simultaneously on one side of a
substrated polyester support having a thickness of 175 µm by means
of conventional coating techniques. The silver coverage of the
emulsions was about 7 g/m2, expressed as an equivalent amount of
silver nitrate. Bis-vinylsulfonylmethyl ether was added in order to
reduce the swelling degree of the unexposed material during 3
minutes in demineralized water of 25°C to 200 %.
Separate strips of the coated materials were subsequently
exposed for the same exposure time of 2 seconds to white light on
exposure apparatus BEL 1043, said light being filtered with a
Corning 4010 filter. Development proceeded for 12 seconds in
developer G138® and thereupon, the developed photographic strips
were fixed in conventional fixer G334®, and after rinsing in water
the film strips were allowed to dry. Sensitometric properties of
these film strips are given in Table 3.
This Table 3 shows the sensitometric results in terms of fog F,
speed S (figures multiplied with a factor of 100, measured at a
density of 1.4 above fog: the lower the figure, the more sensitive
is the emulsion), "toe" contrast (gradation) TG (measured between
0.1 and 1.4 above fog), overall contrast GG (measured between 0.25
and 2.0 above fog),and "shoulder" contrasts or gradation SG1 and SG2
(measured between 1.4 and 2.5 above fog and 0.8 and 1.6 above fog
respectively),of the photographic strips prepared and exposed as set
forth above. Contrast values have all been multiplied with a factor
of 100.
Matl.No | F | S | TG | GG | SG1 | SG2 |
TC1 | 0.03 | 157 | 183 | 241 | 287 | 285 |
TI1 | 0.04 | 137 | 285 | 375 | 432 | 420 |
TI2 | 0.03 | 150 | 312 | 405 | 449 | 466 |
As can be concluded from the Table 3 hereinafter the presence
in the light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsions, more
particularly in core-shell {111} tabular grains rich in silver
bromide (pure AgBr core up to 1/3 of all silver precipitated;
AgBr(I) in the outermost shell), of hexacyano ruthenate salt as a
dopant (locally concentrated in a band corresponding with 5 % of
silver nitrate precipitated, after precipitation of 20 % of the
total amount of silver), in total amounts of 50 and 100 p.p.m.
respectively leads to an increased contrast over the whole
sensitometric curve without loss in speed versus a materials coated
from tabular grains without said sahllow electron trap dopant having
the same halide composition.
Although enhanced amounts of dopants (see TI2 versus TI1) show
a decrease in speed, contrasts are still increasing and the global
sensitivity or speed still exceeds the one of emulsion TC1.
To a solution of 7.5 g of an oxidized gelatin in 3 l of
demineralized water, adjusted to a pBr value of 2.39 by adding KBr
and a pH of 1.8 by adding H2SO4, were added by a double jet method
aqueous solutions of 1.96 M AgNO3 (hereinafter referred to as S1) and
1.20 M KBr (hereinafter referred to as S2): 6 ml of S1 and 6 ml of
S2 were added in a time interval of 9 seconds. During this period,
the reaction mixture was maintained at 45°C. When the addition was
completed, stirring continued during 2 minutes and then, temperature
was increased up to 70°C over a period of 25 minutes, followed by
the addition, after another time of 2 minutes, of 500 ml of an
aqueous gelatinous solution of 10 wt % of gelatin. After another
time interval 2 minutes after said addition a NaOH solution was
added over a time period of one minute in order to adjust pH to 6.0.
Then stirring continued for 6 minutes at a temperature held constant
at 70°C and S1 was added by a single jet at 2.5 ml/min over a period
of 1.5 minutes. Then S1, at a constant flow rate of 2.5 ml/min, and
S2 at a flow rate, controlled in order to maintain pAg at 7.68, were
added in a double jet over a period of 6 minutes. This double jet
addition was continued in order to add 833 ml of S2 during another
period of 1 hour, 35 minutes and 10 seconds, while the flow rate of
S1 was linearly increased up to 15 ml/min and pAg was maintained at
7.68. This period was called "first growth step". 5 minutes after
the completion of said double jet addition, S1 was added at a rate
of 7.5 ml/min during 9 minutes and 50 seconds, while maintaining the
pAg value at 7.68 when adding S3 (solution of 1.20 N of KBr and
0.018 N of KI) at a variable rate. A second growth step was
performed wherein 1519 ml of S1 were added in 75 minutes (starting
velocity 7.5 ml/min. was increased up to 33 ml/min. at the end). S3
was added in order to maintain the pAg at a value of 7.68.
After washing, gelatin and water were added in order to obtain
a silver halide content of 245 g/kg, expressed as AgNO3, and a
gelatin content of 83 g/kg. To 2 kg of this emulsion, of which pH
was adjusted to 5.5, were added consecutively 4 ml of a 10 wt.% KSCN
solution, 0.2 ml of a 4.76x10-3 M solution of sodium
toluenethiosulphonate in methanol, 780 ml of a 0.25 wt.% solution of
anhydro-5,5'-dichloro-3,3'-bis(n-butyl-4-sulphonate)-9-ethylbenzoxa-carbocyanine
triethylammonium salt, 7 mg sodium thiosulphate,
6 ml of a solution containing 1.46x10-3 M chloro auric acid and
1.58x10-2 M ammonium rhodanide, and finally 10 ml of a 1 wt.%
solution of 1-(p-carboxyphenyl)-5-mercapto-tetrazole and this
mixture was chemically ripened during 4 hours at 48°C. After
cooling, a preservative was added.
The preparation scheme was the same as for the preparation of
tabular emulsion TC2 hereinbefore, except for the first growth step
wherein the double jet precipation was continued during another
period of 67 minutes and 16 seconds instead of 95 minutes and 10
seconds as for TC2, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly increased
up to 11.25 ml/min and while the flow rate of S2 was adjusted in
order to maintain a pAg of 7.68. After the completion of said
double jet addition, 122.6 ml of solution S1 was added together with
S2 at a rate in order to provide a constant pAg value of 7.68, while
simultaneously introducing over the same period 29.4 ml of an
aqueous solution of hexacyanoruthenate trihydrate (containing 0.419
g/l of the dopant) thereby introducing such an amount of dopant
solution, corresponding with a locally added amount of 200 p.p.m.,
in order to have a global amount of dopant corresponding with 10
p.p.m. over the whole volume of the tabular grain. A second growth
step was then performed by double jet precipitation of 73.7 ml of
solution S1 at a constant rate of 7.5 ml/min. while adding solution
S3 at a rate in order to maintain a pAg of 7.68. A following
(third) growth step was performed by introduction of solution S1 and
solution S3 by double-jet addition at a starting rate of 7.5 ml/min.
during 21 min. 28, linearly increasing from said 7.5 ml/min up to
35.44 ml/min maintaining pAg at a value of 7.68. The average grain
size of the silver bromoioide tabular {111} emulsion grains thus
prepared, expressed as equivalent volume diameter, was 0.76 µm, the
average thickness was 0.35 µm and the variation coefficient was
0.25. The iodide content was 1 mol %. The chemical ripening was
performed in just the same way (same amounts of chemicals and order
of addition) as described for emulsion TC1.
The dopant agent was thus added after a relative amount of
precipitated silver of about 1/5 of the total amount, in an annular
ring corresponding with a precipitated amount of about 5 % of silver
nitrate added and before growing the tabular grains with the left
amount of about 75 % of the total amount of precipitated silver.
Same emulsion as TC3, except for the local addition at the same
moment in the preparation scheme of 1000 p.p.m. in order to get a
global amount of the same dopant of 50 p.p.m. instead of 10 p.p.m.
as for TC3.
The same chemical ripening (order of addition, amounts of
chemical ripening agents) was applied as for tabular grain emulsions
TC2 and TC3.
Same emulsion as TC3, except for the local addition at the same
moment in the preparation scheme of 2000 p.p.m. in order to get a
global amount of the same dopant of 100 p.p.m. instead of 10 p.p.m.
as for TC3.
The same chemical ripening (order of addition, amounts of
chemical ripening agents) was applied as for tabular grain emulsions
TC2, TC3 and TC4.
The emulsions were coated in materials, exposed and processed
in the same way as in Example 1. Sensitometric results, having the
same significance as in Example 1 have been summarized in Table 4.
Matl.No | F | S | TG | GG | SG1 | SG2 |
TC2 | 0.03 | 123 | 229 | 285 | 255 | 321 |
TI3 | 0.03 | 132 | 245 | 307 | 306 | 340 |
TI4 | 0.03 | 150 | 287 | 352 | 373 | 389 |
TI5 | 0.03 | 163 | 314 | 390 | 427 | 434 |
As can be concluded from the results in Table 4, higher amounts
of dopants clearly cause gradations to increase, but, if compared
with the results obtained in Table 3, a remarkable loss in speed is
obtained when higher amounts of dopant are used, said loss in speed
even leading to a lower speed for the lowest amount of dopant, if
compared with the comparative example.
Opposite to the results summarized in Table 3 speed is
insufficient, even for low amounts (10 p.p.m.) of dopant and there
is even a further loss in speed as higher amounts of dopants are
present.
This is clearly related with differences in iodide distribution
over the volume of the core-shell structured silver bromoiodide
tabular grain as the silver bromide core is extending up to 50 % of
all silver precipitated and as AgBr(I) is present in a shell not
exceeding 50 % of all silver precipitated.
Having described in detail illustrative examples 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 appending claims.
Claims (10)
- Light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion comprising a binder and core-shell tabular grains, wherein said core is more rich in silver bromide than said shell, characterized in that said grains contain, in the core of said core-shell tabular grains representing an amount of precipitated silver halide extending up to less than 50 % of all precipitated silver halide, a ruthenium complex compound as a sole complex compound providing shallow electron traps.
- Light-sensitive silver halide photographic emulsion according to claim 1, wherein said core represents an amount of precipitated silver halide extending up to at most 40 % of all precipitated silver halide.
- Emulsion according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said grains have silver bromide in an average amount of at least 95 mole %.
- Emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 3, wherein said grains have silver iodide in an average amount of at most 3 mole %.
- Emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein said tabular grains have a {111} crystal habit with an aspect ratio of more than 2, an average equivalent crystal diameter of at least 0.5 µm, an average thickness of from 0.06 to 0.30 µm and wherein said grains account for a total projected area of at least 90 % with respect to all grains.
- Emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 5, wherein said ruthenium complex compound providing shallow electron traps is a ruthenium cyanate salt complex.
- Emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 6, wherein said ruthenium complex compound is present in amount of from 1 ppb up to 100 ppm versus silver.
- Emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 7, wherein said ruthenium complex compound is locally concentrated in a band corresponding with less than 10 % of silver nitrate precipitated, after precipitation at least 10 % of the total amount of silver.
- Emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 7, wherein said ruthenium complex compound is locally concentrated in a band corresponding with at most 5 % of silver nitrate precipitated, after precipitation of 20 % of the total amount of silver.
- Single-side or double-side coated silver halide photographic material comprising a support and coated thereon one or both sides respectively one or more hydrophilic light-sensitive layers, wherein at least one of said layers comprises a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion according to any of claims 1 to 9.
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