EP1197797A2 - Système pour radiographie directe pouvant être utilisé dans des tests non-destructifs dans le domaine de la radiographie industrielle et pour la surveillance de personnes - Google Patents

Système pour radiographie directe pouvant être utilisé dans des tests non-destructifs dans le domaine de la radiographie industrielle et pour la surveillance de personnes Download PDF

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EP1197797A2
EP1197797A2 EP01000463A EP01000463A EP1197797A2 EP 1197797 A2 EP1197797 A2 EP 1197797A2 EP 01000463 A EP01000463 A EP 01000463A EP 01000463 A EP01000463 A EP 01000463A EP 1197797 A2 EP1197797 A2 EP 1197797A2
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    • G03C1/08—Sensitivity-increasing substances
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  • the present invention relates to a system for direct X-ray detection and image-formation suitable for use in radiographic industrial non-destructive testing materials and personal monitoring.
  • Industrial radiography is a non-destructive technique for testing and analyzing defects in components such as glass, paper, wood or metal parts, etc..
  • This technique is widely used in aeronautics, the nuclear industry or the petroleum industry since it makes it possible to detect welding defects or defects in the texture of materials in aircraft components, nuclear reactors or pipelines.
  • This technique consists of exposing a component to be analyzed to an ionizing radiation, in general X or gamma rays having an energy between 10.000 and 15.000 kvp, either directly or by means of an intensifying screen. It is therefore necessary with this technique to use specific radiographic elements which are highly sensitive to this ionizing radiation.
  • the major part of the ionizing radiation however passes through the silver halide grains without being absorbed and only a very small part of the incident radiation (less than 1%) is really absorbed and contributes to the formation of a developable latent image.
  • Cubic silver bromoiodide grains have until now preferably been used in non-destructive testing applications for the reason set out above, preferably coated in high amounts of more than 25 g/m2, expressed as equivalent amounts of silver nitrate, particularly when a higher speed is envisaged, as for those materials having grains with an average equivalent crystal diameter of at least 0.4 ⁇ m or an average equivalent volume of at least 0.034 ⁇ m 3 .
  • Lowering of coated amounts of silver thus results in a reduction of speed (sensitivity) for direct-Röngten rays and further leads to a lowering in contrast, which may be in favour of image quality (especially graininess) as desired for some well-designed applications, but makes maximum density decrease to an unacceptable level.
  • a system for direct X-ray radiography comprised of (1) a silver halide photographic element or material free from dyes spectrally sensitizing radiation sensitive emulsion grains coated in radiation sensitive layers thereof, said emulsion grains being tabular silver brom(oiod)ide grains with ⁇ 111 ⁇ major faces, an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.5 ⁇ m and an average thickness of less than 0.30 ⁇ m, accounting for at least 50 % of the total projective area of all grains, said grains further having been chemically sensitized by the steps of
  • a gold salt and a sulfite salt present in amounts of at least 0.010 mmole and 0.05 mmole per mole of silver (nitrate), respectively.
  • said material is an industrial non-destructive testing material.
  • said element is a material for personal monitoring.
  • Last but not least an image-forming method comprising the steps of exposing to X- or ⁇ -rays with an energy greater than or equal to 10 kvp an element or material used in the system according to the present invention and processing the said element by the steps of developing, fixing, rinsing and drying.
  • a method is provided of chemical sensitization of tabular silver brom(oiod)ide emulsion grains having ⁇ 111 ⁇ major faces for use in an element for industrial radiography sensitive to X- or ⁇ -rays, coated with less silver halide, if compared with an element having voluminous grains, in order to get a high speed and minimum variation thereof, even after processing of said materials in exhausted processing solutions. It is also compatible with ascorbic acid developers, which are known to be particularly advantageous and preferred from an ecological point of view.
  • the present invention is related with a direct X-ray radiographic element intended to be exposed to X- or ⁇ -radiations having an energy greater than or equal to 10 kVp, which comprises a support covered on both sides with a silver halide emulsion layer in which at least 50 percent of the total grain projected area of all grains is accounted for by tabular grains having an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.50 ⁇ m and an average thickness of less than 0.30 ⁇ m (resulting in an aspect ratio of at least about 2) and a silver content of the radiographic element from 5 up to 25 g/m 2 , and even preferably from 5 to at most 15 g/m 2 .
  • the average volume of the tabular grains is greater than 0.03 ⁇ m 3 and for irradiation having a higher energy, it is even recommended to have an average volume of at least 0.06 ⁇ m 3 .
  • an "intensifying screen” is a metal screen which enables the proportion of X-ray or ⁇ -radiations absorbed by the silver halide grains to be increased.
  • the X-rays interact with the intensifying screen, producing electrons in all directions. Some of these electrons will be absorbed by the silver halide grains in the emulsion layer in order to form latent image sites. By increasing the number of electrons emitted in the direction of the grains, the quantity of electrons absorbed by the grains is increased.
  • the system according to the present invention remains a so-called "direct X-ray system”.
  • the sensitivity (speed) obtained is notably higher than that obtained with a radiographic element consisting of three-dimensional grains, for an identical grain volume, even when thin tabular grains having a high aspect ratio are coated, opposite to the normally expected absorption reduction of X- or ⁇ -rays by the said thin tabular grains, which permit the use of a silver content, being up to 25 % lower than in the presence of emulsions with thick or three-dimensional grains of the elements for industrial radiography.
  • Tabular grains having ⁇ 111 ⁇ major faces have two parallel major faces wider than the other faces of the grain. Said grains are further characterized by their aspect ratio, defined as equivalent circular diameter (of a circle having same area as the grain) to thickness, measured from shadowed replicas under a well defined angle.
  • the ⁇ 111 ⁇ tabular emulsion grains subjected to chemical ripening or sensitization in the absence of spectrally sensitizing dyes, but in the presence of sensitizing compounds essentially comprising at least one gold salt in order to provide the surface of said tabular grains with at least 6000 atoms of gold per ⁇ m 2 of its grain surface and per (0.1 ⁇ m of thickness) 2 ; and at least a sulfite salt in such an amount that the ratio of the number of gold atoms per ⁇ m 2 and (concentration of said sulfite salt, expressed in mmole per mole of silver) 2 is at least 200000, in order to fully reach the objects of the present invention, more particularly with respect to a lower difference between speed in fresh
  • said ratio is in the range from 0.2 x 10 6 up to 3.5 x 10 6 .
  • a gold salt is added in an amount of at least 0.010 mmole per mole of silver and a sulfite salt is added in an amount of at least 0.05 mmole per mole of silver.
  • Silver solvents have a regulating role therein, especially those comprising thiocyanate ions. From such combination of gold salts and sulfite in the chemical ripening step in order to provide the number of gold atoms at the surface of the tabular grain emulsions and the ratio of gold versus sulfite as claimed, it was never expected that it would provide such an improvement in developablity, more particularly in exhausted developer compositions.
  • noble metal sensitization with gold salts as an essential feature in the amounts as set forth hereinbefore, noble metal sensitization with another salt of a noble metal as e.g. iridium, palladium, platinum, preferably in minor amounts versus gold, may be applied.
  • a noble metal e.g. iridium, palladium, platinum, preferably in minor amounts versus gold
  • the gold sensitizers which are preferably used include chloroauric acid, goldsulfide, chloroaurate salts, aurithiocyanate and gold selenide. The amount of the gold sensitizer should be applied in order to specifically encounter the desired requirements set forth above.
  • Sulfur sensitization can be further be carried out with sulphur compounds like thiosulphates, thioureas, rhodamines, etc..
  • the sulphur sensitizer can also be used in an amount of about 10 -8 to 10 -2 mole per mole silver halide.
  • Selenium sensitization and even tellurium sensitization can optionally be applied, as has e.g.
  • Reduction sensitization by means of a reducing compound like thiourea dioxide, hydrazine derivatives, sulphinic acid, polyamine compounds, stannous chloride, borane compounds, reductones like ascorbic acid, etc., may further be applied. Reduction sensitization can also be carried out at a low pAg or a high pH or at both and if desired at elevated temperature. This kind of sensitization is refered to 'silver ripening'. More information can be found in Research Disclosure, Vol. 307, No. 307105 and in P.Glafkides "Chimie et Physique Photographic", P.Montel - Paris, 5 th Ed.,1987.
  • Preparation of a photosensitive element suitable for use in the system according to the present invention comprises the step of chemically sensitizing under conditions of pAg in the range of 6 till 11, preferably between 7 and 10; in conditions of pH in the range of 3 to 10, preferably 4 to 8.5, while the temperature is in the range between 40 to 95°C, pre-ferably between 45 and 85°C, without however being limited thereto.
  • an emulsion comprising a protective colloid and tabular silver brom(oiod)ide emulsion grains having ⁇ 111 ⁇ major faces, an average equivalent circular diameter of at least 0.5 ⁇ m and an average thickness of less than 0.30 ⁇ m, said tabular grains accounting for at least 50 % of the total projective area of all grains, said grains being chemically sensitized according to the method as set forth to be suitable for use in the system according to the present invention.
  • the said silver brom(oiod)ide emulsion grains have an average equivalent circular diameter of up to 2.0 ⁇ m and an average thickness of from 0.05 up to 0.25 ⁇ m.
  • said silver brom(oiod)ide emulsion grains have an average equivalent circular diameter of up to 2.0 ⁇ m and an average thickness of from 0.08 up to 0.22 ⁇ m.
  • the tabular grains present in the emulsion according to the present invention may be monodisperse or polydisperse, preferably monodisperse.
  • the monodispersity of the grains is defined by the variation coefficient, expressed as a percentage, and is equal to the ratio of the standard deviation of the grain population from the average value of equivalent circular diameter of the tabular grains and said average value of equivalent circular diameter.
  • a variation coefficient of preferred monodisperse emulsions is less than about 25 %, and even more preferably in the range from 10 to 20 %.
  • Such emulsion grains can be prepared e.g. according to the method described in EP-A's 0 506 947, 0 569 075, 0 577 886, 0 584 189, 0 953 868 and 1 014 175, without however being limited thereto.
  • the tabular silver halide grains essentially comprise silver bromide in an amount of at least 90 mole % of bromide, based on silver, and may optionally contain chloride in an amount of at most 10 mole %.
  • a tabular grain emulsion in which at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by silver brom(oiod)ide tabular grains having an iodide content of less than 5 mole %, based on silver, having an average aspect ratio of at least 2, and having a volume greater than 0.03 ⁇ m 3 is desired.
  • the volume of the tabular grains is preferably greater than 0.06 ⁇ m3.
  • Optionally chloride can be present, if desired but always in a concentration of at most 10 %, based on silver.
  • said silver brom(oiod)ide tabular grains, coated in at least one photosensitive layer of the radiographic element suitable for use in the system of the present invention have silver iodide in an amount of at most 1 mole % based on silver.
  • said tabular grains have an average volume between 0.05 and 2 ⁇ m 3 and the aspect ratio is between 5 and 25.
  • said element is coated with photosensitive emulsion crystals so that a silver content per coated side, expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate, is between 5 and 25 g/m 2 .
  • iodide ions may further be provided by using aqueous solutions of inorganic salts thereof as e.g. potassium iodide, sodium iodide or ammonium iodide.
  • Iodide ions can however also be provided by organic compounds releasing iodide ions as has e.g. been described in EP-A's 0 561 415, 0 563 701, 0 563 708, 0 649 052 and 0 651 284 and in WO 96/13759.
  • iodide ions provided by organic agents releasing iodide ions are preferred such as mono iodide acetic acid, mono iodide propionic acid, mono iodide ethanol and even hydrogels containing iodide ions, capable to generate iodide ions.
  • Generation of iodide ions is triggered by changing the pH value in the reaction vessel during or, preferably, after addition of the said organic agent releasing iodide ions.
  • very fine silver iodide grains having a grain diameter of about 0.05 ⁇ m may be added as a source of iodide ions (also in favour of uniformity of silver iodide distribution over the tabular grains as disclosed e.g. in US-A 5,955,253), and even addition of KI 3 is not excluded (see e.g. US-A 6,033,842.
  • said iodide ions can be added (in small amounts) during the chemical sensitization step (even in form of those small silver iodide grains as has e.g. been described in US-A 5,411,849. The presence of iodide ions stabilizes the (111)-crystal faces.
  • Grain size distributions of silver brom(oiod)ide crystals over the light-sensitive emulsion are homogeneous or monodisperse by controlling the precipitation methods used.
  • Metal ions or metal ion complexes also called dopants commonly added in low amounts to the silver brom(oiod)ide crystals in whatever a stage of the preparation, generally have little influence on crystal distributions in the emulsions but may be added to cause advantageous effects with respect to reciprocity, pressure sensitization, etc., as has been described e.g. in US-A 5,362,619; wherein fine AgI crystals have been added in the precipitation step.
  • heterogeneous distributions can be obtained and may even be more advantageous e.g. from the point of view of exposure latitude but in order to obtain the same effect of e.g. an increasing exposure latitude is reached by making mixtures of different homogeneous emulsions having very low variation coefficients e.g. in the range from 0.05 to 0.15.
  • This may lead to even more advantageous sensitometric characteristics (e.g. increased contrast) or image quality (e.g. granularity and/or sharpness) as has been illustrated e.g. in US-A 4,446,228 and in EP-A 0 555 897.
  • thin tabular grains accounting for at least 50 % of the total projective surface area of all grains, more preferred for at least 75 % and, even more preferred, for at least 90 %, are present.
  • the composition of the halide can change in the crystal in a continous or discontinous way.
  • Emulsions containing crystals composed of various sections with different halide compositions are used for several photographic applications. So a structure with a difference in halide composition between the center and the rest of the crystal (what is called 'core-shell'-emulsion) or with more than two crystal parts differing in halide composition (called a 'band'-emulsion) may occur.
  • the changes in halide composition can be realised by direct precipitation or in an indirect way by conversion where fine silver halide grains of a certain halide composition are dissolved in the presence of the so-called host grains forming a 'shell' or 'band' on the given grain.
  • the silver halide emulsion can be prepared in various ways by conventional methods. These methods always start with a nucleation step, followed by a grain growth step. In this last step of the emulsion preparation reactants are added to the reaction vessel in the form of solutions of silver and halide salts or in the form of preformed silverhalide nuclei or fine grains which easily dissolve in the precipitation medium.
  • the individual reactants can be added through surface or subsurface delivery tubes by hydrostatic pressure or by an automatic delivery system for maintaining the control of pH and/or pAg in the reaction vessel and of the rate of the reactant solutions introduced in it.
  • the reactant solutions or dispersions can be added at a constant rate or a constantly increasing, decreasing or fluctuating rate, if desired in combination with stepwise delivery procedures. More details about the possible ways in making a silver halide emulsion which can principally be used in this invention are summarized in Research Disclosure No.38957 (September 1996), section I-C.
  • additional chemical metal salts can be added for occlusion in the crystal lattice.
  • Such compound is replacing an appropriate amount of silver and halide ions in the silver halide lattice.
  • dopants can be distinguished from the metal complexes which are added just before coating as an additive by EPR- or ENDOR-technique. These dopants can be used to modify the crystal structure or the crystal properties and can therefore be employed to influence many photographical properties like sensitivity, reciprocity failure, gradation, pressure sensitivity, fog, stability, etc..
  • Dopants when introduced in emulsions of the present invention are those which can act as a permanent or as a non-permanent electron trap.
  • the doping procedure itself can normally be executed at any stage during the grain growth phase of the emulsion preparation. It is important to know that the dopants can also be added in an indirect way by the addition of a dispersion containing very fine soluble silver halide grains or nuclei comprising the dopant. More additional information about the introduction and the use of dopants in the emulsion crystals can be found in Research Disclosure, Item 38957 (sept. 1996), section I-D. Doping agents, generally in small quantities, such as rhodium, indium, osmium, iridium and ruthenium ions can be added and incorporated in a way as has further been disclosed in e.g.
  • gelatin is normally used as protective colloid for the silver halide emulsion crystals during precipitation.
  • 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, N° 16, page 30 (1966).
  • 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. polyvinyl alcohol, poly-N-vinyl pyrrolidone, polyvinyl imidazole, polyvinyl pyrazole, polyacrylamide, polyacrylic acid, and derivatives thereof, in particular copolymers thereof.
  • Natural substitutes for gelatin are e.g.
  • 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 cationic starch, whether or not in oxidized form.
  • 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 cationic starch, whether or not in oxidized form.
  • gelatin may further be replaced with a synthetic or natural high-molecular material.
  • An interesting substitute for gelatin may be silica as has been described in the published EP-A's 0 392 092, 0 517 961, 0 528 476, 0 649 051, 0 677 773 and 0 704 749.
  • silica sols are required as colloidal binder commercially available such as the "Syton” silica sols (a trademarked product of Monsanto Inorganic Chemicals Div.), the "Ludex” silica sols (a trademarked product of du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc.), the "Nalco” and “Nalcoag” silica sols (trademarked products of Nalco Chemical Co), the "Snowtex” silica sols of Nissan Kagaku K.K. and the "Kieselsol, Types 100, 200, 300, 500 and 600" (trademarked products of Bayer AG).
  • Particle sizes of the silica sol particles are in the range from 3 nm to 30 ⁇ m.
  • the smaller particles in the range from 3 nm to 0.3 ⁇ m, and still more preferable from 3 nm up to 7 nm are preferred as the covering degree that can be achieved will be higher and as the protective action of the colloidal silica will be more effective.
  • 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
  • adenine to an allowable residual amount preferably at most 0.3 mg/g of gelatin
  • an ultrafiltration washing procedure as 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.
  • suitable as a binder material can be added at a later stage of the emulsion preparation as e.g. after washing, in order to establish optimal coating conditions and/or to establish the required thickness of the coated emulsion layer.
  • a gelatin to silver halide ratio silver halide being expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate, ranging from 0.3 to 1.0 is then obtained.
  • Another binder may also be added instead of or in addition to gelatin.
  • Useful vehicles, vehicle extenders, vehicle-like addenda and vehicle related addenda have been described e.g. in Research Disclosure N° 38957 (1996), Chapter II.
  • any thickening agent may be used in order to regulate the viscosity of the coating solution, provided that they do not particularly affect the photographic characteristics of the silver chloroiodide emulsion in the coated photographic material.
  • Preferred thickening agents include aqueous polymers such as polystyrene sulphonic acid, dextran, sulphuric acid esters, polysaccharides, polymers having a sulphonic acid group, a carboxylic acid group or a phosphoric acid group as well as colloidal silica.
  • Polymeric thickeners well-known from the literature resulting in thickening of the coating solution may even be used in combination with colloidal silica. Patents concerning thickening agents are e.g.
  • hydrophilic colloidal layer compositions on a support by slide-hopper or curtain-coating techniques, wherein said compositions have gelatin in low amounts in order to provide a ratio by weight of gelatin to silver halide expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate in the range from 0.05 to 0.4
  • thickening agents composed of synthetic clay and anionic macromolecular polyelectrolytes wherein said synthetic clay is present in an amount of at least 85 % by weight versus the total amount of thickening agents are recommended as has been disclosed in EP-A 0 813 105.
  • the layer binder should of course dispose of an acceptably high number of functional groups, which by reaction with an appropriate hardening agent can provide a sufficiently resistant layer.
  • functional groups are especially the amino groups, but also carboxylic groups, hydroxy groups, and active methylene groups.
  • Hardeners may be added to the antistress layer, covering one or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers before or during the coating procedure, or to one or more of the said emulsion layers.
  • the binders of the photographic element especially when the binder used is gelatin, can be hardened 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 1,3-vinylsulphonyl-2-propanol, chromium salts e.g. chromium acetate and chromium alum, aldehydes e.g. formaldehyde, glyoxal, and glutaraldehyde, N-methylol compounds e.g. dimethylolurea and methyloldimethylhydantoin, dioxan derivatives e.g. 2,3-dihydroxy-dioxan, active vinyl compounds e.g. 1,3,5-triacryloyl-hexa-hydro-s-triazine, active halogen compounds e.g.
  • chromium salts e.g. chromium acetate and chromium alum
  • aldehydes e.g. formaldehyde, glyoxal, and glutaraldehyde
  • 2,4-dichloro-6-hydroxy-s-triazine and mucohalogenic acids e.g. mucochloric acid and mucophenoxy-chloric acid.
  • These hardeners can be used alone or in combination.
  • the binders can also be hardened with fast-reacting hardeners such as carbamoylpyridinium salts.
  • Formaldehyde and phloroglucinol can e.g. be added respectively to the protective layer(s) and to the emulsion layer(s).
  • Preferred hardening agents in the context of the present invention however are bis-(vinyl-sulphonyl)-methane (BVSME) and ethylene bis-(vinyl-sulphone).
  • a silver halide photographic material for use in the system of the present invention comprising on both sides a support, preferably symmetrically coated, at least one light-sensitive hydrophilic layer having a silver halide emulsion as disclosed hereinbefore.
  • Materials for use in the image-forming system according to the present invention commonly have a hardening degree in order to have an absorption of water, as can be measured in a processing cycle after rinsing and before drying not, of not more than 2 g per g of gelatin coated.
  • a lot of other ingredients are further required in order get suitable sensitometric properties, as e.g. sensitivity (also called speed), gradation (also called contrast) and fog in the preferred processing conditions for the materials coated from silver brom(oiod)ide emulsions used in the element according to the present invention.
  • two intensifying screens are disposed on each side of the radiographic element, wherein said screens do not emit visible light (as they generate more electrons as being electron intensifying screens).
  • the said screens normally used are sheets of lead, lead oxide, or dense metals such as copper or steel. The thickness of these screens is between 0.025 mm and 0.50 mm, depending on the type of ionizing radiation used.
  • X- or •-rays have an energy greater than or equal to 10 kVp as already set forth.
  • the radiographic image is obtained by exposing, to X- or ⁇ -rays, either directly or through an intensifying screen as set forth above, a radiographic element which comprises a support covered on at least one side of the support material with a layer of silver halide emulsion grains comprising tabular grains having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 2 and a tabular grain volume of at least 0.03 ⁇ m 3 , and by developing the exposed element by making use of conventional processing methods or, in a more preferred embodiment, by "ecological" processing methods.
  • hardener-free black-and white developers are used, having ascorbic acid (as a more biodegradable developing agent instead of the conventional developing agents as dihydroxybenzene compounds or aminophenoles) as well as hardener-free fixers free from aluminum and/or ammonium salts, wherein said fixers further comprise a solvent for silver halides such as thiosulphate, thiocyanate or sulphurated organic compounds.
  • the element according to the present invention is free from spectrally sensitizing dyes as those are playing no role in capturing direct X-rays.
  • the photographic element may further comprise various kinds of coating physical property modifying addenda as described in Research Disclosure N° 38957 (1996), Chapter IX, wherein coating aids, plasticizers and lubricants, antistats and matting agents have been described.
  • Development acceleration can be accomplished by incorporating in emulsion layer(s) or adjacent layers various compounds, preferably polyalkylene 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 as well as in EP-A's 0 634 688 and 0 674 215.
  • various compounds preferably polyalkylene 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 as well as in EP-A's 0 634 688 and 0 674 215.
  • the photographic element may further comprise various other additives such as e.g. compounds improving the dimensional stability of the photographic element, ultraviolet absorbers and spacing agents.
  • Suitable additives for improving the dimensional stability of the photographic element are e.g. dispersions of a water-soluble or hardly soluble synthetic polymer e.g.
  • 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 3,314,794 and 3,352,681, benzophenone compounds as described in JP-A 56-2784, 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 and those described in Research Disclosure N° 38957(1996), Chapter VI, wherein also suitable optical brighteners are mentioned.
  • Spacing agents may be present of which, in general, the average particle size 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 element, whereas alkali-soluble spacing agents usually are removed therefrom in an alkaline processing bath. Suitable spacing agents can be made e.g. 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.
  • the material normally has a duplitized emulsion layer coated on both sides (double-side coated) of the support.
  • a mixture of two or more emulsions having silver brom(oiod)ide crystals with the same or different crystal sizes, the same or a different crystal habit, same or a different halide composition and/or a different or the same chemical ripening treatment may be added to at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer, provided that (as an essential feature of the present invention) at least one emulsion (present in a sufficient amount in order to provide enough tabular grains, accounting for at least 50 % of a total projective surface of said grains) has crystals ripened at least with a gold salt in order to provide the surface of said tabular grains with at least 6000 atoms of gold per ⁇ m 2 of its grain surface and per (0.1 ⁇ m of thickness) 2 and at least a sulfite salt in such an amount that the ratio of the number of gold atoms per ⁇
  • a material is thus provided, being a double-side coated material having same emulsion layers at both sides, coated per side with an amount of silver, expressed as an equivalent amount of silver nitrate in the range of from 5 up to 25 g/m 2 .
  • the photographic material may contain several light-insensitive layers at the side of the support carrying said light-sensitive emulsion layer(s), e.g. a protective antistress layer which can be split up into two layers, one of them being an underlying interlayer or an outermost afterlayer coated or sprayed on top of the "basic" protective antistress layer, one or more subbing layers, one or more intermediate layers, and even an afterlayer containing e.g. hardening agent(s), antistatic agent(s) and, optionally, filter dyes for safety-light purposes etc.
  • a protective antistress layer which can be split up into two layers, one of them being an underlying interlayer or an outermost afterlayer coated or sprayed on top of the "basic" protective antistress layer, one or more subbing layers, one or more intermediate layers, and even an afterlayer containing e.g. hardening agent(s), antistatic agent(s) and, optionally, filter dyes for safety-light purposes etc.
  • Protective antistress layers preferably contain coating aids and coating physical property modifying addenda mentioned in Research Disclosure N° 38957, published September 1996, Chapter IX. Antistatic properties are especially preferred in order to prevent blackening after processing in form of sparks, etc. due to abrupt decharging of electrostatic charges during production and/or handling before exposure and/or processing. It is highly preferred to add antistatic agents to the protective antistress layer or to an afterlayer coated thereupon as has been described e.g. in EP-A's 0 534 006, 0 644 454 and 0 644 456 and in US-A's 4,670,374 and 4,670,376.
  • antistatic agents as polythiophenes, or oxides of vanadium, tin, etc.
  • subbing layers of PEDT a polythiophene
  • Abrasion resistance of these outermost layers may be improved as described in US-A's 4,766,059 and 4,820,615.
  • Spraycoating of afterlayers has been disclosed e.g. in US-A 5,443,640. Measures in order to further suppress pressure sensitivity may be coating of enhanced amounts of binder as e.g. gelatin.
  • the support of the radiographic elements of the present invention preferably is a blue colored polyester support like polyethylene terephthalate.
  • the thickness of such organic resin film is preferably about 175 ⁇ m.
  • suitable hydrophobic resin supports are well known to those skilled in the art and are made e.g. of polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polycarbonate and polyethylene naphthalate.
  • the support is further provided with a substrate layer at both sides to have good adhesion properties between the adjacent layers and said support: one or more subbing layers known to those skilled in the art for adhering thereto a hydrophilic colloid layer may be present. Suitable subbing layers for polyethylene terephthalate supports are described e.g.
  • a preferred layer arrangement wherein a subbing layer composition comprising as a latex copolymer vinylidene chloride, methylacrylate and itaconic acid has been covered with hydrophilic layers being at least one gelatinous dye containing layer comprising one or more dyes, at least one silver halide emulsion layer, at least one protective antistress layer, and optionally an afterlayer has been described in EP-A 0 752 617.
  • said hydrophilic layers have a swelling ratio of not more than 200 % and in said hydrophilic layers are coated simultaneously by the slide-hopper coating or by the slide-hopper curtain coating technique.
  • a material is thus provided, wherein said material is a radiographic industrial non-destructive testing material.
  • said material is a material for personal monitoring.
  • a personal electromagnetic radiation monitor is provided, said monitor being wearable by a person to warn the person of a radiation hazard condition caused by electromagnetic radiation emanating from a source of electromagnetic radiation, said monitor essentially comprising a material according to the present invention.
  • a system for industrial radiography is further offered, said system being comprised of (1) an industrial radiographic element as set forth herinbefore and (2) disposed on opposite sides of the radiographic element, two intensifying screens designed to emit electrons when exposed to X- or ⁇ -rays with an energy greater than or equal to 10 kVp; more particularly with radiation having high energy, such as energies of 1.1 and 1.3 MeV as is the case for a Co-60 source or from a source for X-rays further comprising a high energy tube or even a synchrotron.
  • High energy elementary particle radiation, generated from said high energy tube or from a synchrotron, as e.g. ⁇ -rays, electron beam or neutron radiation is useful in the context of the present invention.
  • a method is offered of providing an automated non-destructive test system to a manufacturing process, comprising the steps of providing at least one source for X-rays or ⁇ -rays; and providing an object under test exposed to said X-rays or ⁇ -rays, said object being operable to selectively absorb said X-rays or ⁇ -rays.
  • a method for forming an industrial radiographic image comprising of (1) exposing the system disclosed hereinbefore to X- or ⁇ -rays with an energy greater than or equal to 10 kVp to form a latent image and (2) developing the said latent image.
  • said latent image is developed in a developing bath which contains ascorbic acid as developing agent.
  • Information about such developers can be found e.g. in EP-A 0 732 619 and in US-A's 5,593,817; 5,604,082; 5,895,743 and 5,948,602; and in Research Disclosures Nos. 371052 (p. 185-224) and 352049 (p. 542-543), published March 1, 1995 and August 1, 1993 respectively.
  • said radiographic element is fully forehardened and the latent image is developed in a developing bath without further hardening.
  • hydrophilic layers have a swelling ratio of not more than 200 %, more preferably not more than 150 %, and that in the processing cycle comprising the steps of developing, fixing, rinsing and drying, before drying and after the last rinsing step said material contains not more than 2 grams of water per gram of coated gelatin.
  • an image-forming method comprising the steps of exposing the system for industrial radiography disclosed hereinbefore and processing the material by the steps of developing, fixing, rinsing and drying.
  • the image-forming method of the present invention comprises the step of processing said film material used in the image-forming system described hereinbefore, wherein said processing comprises the steps of developing in a developing solution comprising (iso)ascorbic acid, 1-ascorbic acid, reductic acid, salts and/or derivatives thereof; fixing in a fixer solution free from aluminum salts and, optionally, ammonium salts; rinsing and drying.
  • Replenishing said developing and fixer solution normally proceeds with amounts of replenisher in the range from 300 up to 900 ml/m 2 , more preferably from 300 up to 600 ml/m 2 , and from 400 up to 1200 ml/m 2 , more preferably from 400 up to 700 ml/m 2 , respectively.
  • an automatically operating apparatus is used provided with a system for automatic replenishment of the processing solutions.
  • the processing therein proceeds within a relatively short processing time of from 1.5 up to 15 minutes from dry-to-dry, and more preferably, and realistic, from 3 up to 8 minutes, for materials used in the image forming system of the present invention as with the radiographic element according to the invention, it is possible to use silver contents up to 25% lower than the silver contents of the emulsions with thick or three-dimensional grains of the elements for industrial radiography.
  • a configuration suitable for use in the automatic processing apparatus shows the following consecutive tank units corresponding with, as consecutive solutions: developer-fixer-rinse water.
  • developer-fixer-rinse water In order to reduce "sludge formation" which is favored by solubilizing agents like sulfites, present in the developer as preservatives, a particularly suitable developer solution is the one comprising a reduced amount of sulfite and ascorbic acid which acts as a main developer and anti-oxidant as well and which is called "low-sludge" developer.
  • a particularly suitable fixer solution comprises an amount of less than 25 g of potassium sulfite 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.
  • the presence of ⁇ -ketocarboxylic acid compounds may be useful as has been described in EP-A's 0 620 483 and 0 726 491 and in Research Disclosure No. 16768, published March 1978. It is possible to use sodium thiosulphate as a fixing agent, thus avoiding the ecologically undesired ammonium ions normally used.
  • a fixation time which is reduced to about 100 seconds can be attained.
  • the developer solution used in the method according to this invention should be replenished not only for decrease of the liquid volume due to cross-over into the next processing solution but also for pH-changes due to oxidation of the developer molecules. This can be done on a regular time interval basis or on the basis of the amount of processed film or on a combination of both. In these circumstances, no dilution and mixing procedures are required before the regeneration bottles are adjusted to the processing unit. Moreover regeneration is kept to a minimum, especially in the processing of materials coated from lower amounts of emulsion crystals rich in silver bromide. Preferred minimum regeneration or replenishment amounts are from 300 up to 600 ml/m 2 for the developer solution and from 400 up to 700 ml/m 2 for the fixer solution.
  • Replenishment of a developer comprising ascorbic acid or derivatives thereof and a 3-pyrazolidone derivative can be done as has been described in EP-A 0 573 700, wherein a method has been disclosed for processing with constant activity of image-wise exposed silver halide photographic material and wherein replenishing said developing solution proceeds by means of at least one replenishing solution having a higher pH than the developing solution.
  • Other useful references related therewith, applicable with respect to the present invention are e.g. EP-A's 0 552 511 and 0 660 175 and US-A's 5,503,965; 5,895,743 and 6,083,672.
  • S2 was added in 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 8.9, were added by double jet addition over a period of 1 minute. This double jet was continued during another period of 33 minutes and 23 seconds, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly increased up to 23.1 ml/min and pAg was maintained at 8.9. 5 minutes after the completion of said double jet addition, S1 was added at 7.5 ml/min during 7 minutes and 20 seconds. Then another double jet started of S1 at 7.5 ml/min during 1 minute and 40 seconds and an aqueous solution of 1.93 M KBr and 0.03 M KI at a controlled flow rate in order to maintain pAg at 7.4.
  • This double jet addition step was continued during another period of 40 minutes and 56 seconds, while the flow rate of S1 was linearly increased up to 36.8 ml/min, while pAg was maintained at a value of 7.4.
  • the tabular grains showed an average equivalent circular diameter (ECD) of 1.0 ⁇ m and an average thickness of 0.22 ⁇ m.
  • ECD average equivalent circular diameter
  • the variation coefficient on said ECD was 0.30.
  • the iodide content was 1 mole %, based on silver.
  • gelatin and water were added in order to obtain a silver halide content of 245 g/kg, expressed as an equivalent amount of AgNO 3 , and the gelatin content of 83 g/kg.
  • the pH was adjusted to a value of 6.0.
  • the emulsions were then heated for 4 hours at 52 °C.
  • topcoat layer protection antistress layer
  • components and amounts in g per m 2 after coating have been given in Table II hereinafter.
  • the photographic materials according to these examples comprise one emulsion layer and one protective layer, coated symmetrically in the same way, at both sides of a blue colored polyethylene terephthalate support having a density for white light of 0.150.
  • the coating solution of the emulsion layer was prepared by adding solutions of the compounds indicated in Table I to the emulsions, dissolved while warming and stirring.
  • the coating solution of the protective layer is given in Table II. After adjusting the pH to 6.8, the viscosity of the coating solutions is optimized according to the requirements of the coating method.
  • the emulsion layer and the protective layer were simultaneously coated by means of the conventional slide hopper coating technique on one side of a subbed polyester support having a thickness of 175 ⁇ m.
  • the silver coverage of the emulsions was 11.5 g/m 2 , expressed as equivalent amount of AgNO 3 /m 2 and per side.
  • Samples of said coated and dried films were exposed to X-rays at a voltage of 86kV and a current of 10mA.
  • the exposure times varied from 16 to 414 seconds.
  • the samples were processed manually in a tank (immersing times: developing during 5 minutes at 20°C; fixing during 4 minutes at room temperature; rinsing during 15 minutes at room temperature; and drying ) in a freshly prepared developer (G128, trademark product from Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Mortsel, Belgium) and in the same developer, but after exhaustion of said developer.
  • the exhausted developer was simulated by processing, per liter of developer, 1.0 m 2 of the commercialy available Structurix D7 film - also trademark product from Agfa-Gevaert N.V., Mortsel, Belgium - without replenishing or adding fresh developer.
  • the number of gold atoms per per ⁇ m 2 of the grain surface for the lowest gold concentration was about 32000.
  • Table III shows that the highest amount of HAuClO 4 .4H 2 O combined with the highest amount of Na 2 SO 3 results in a lower loss of speed after exhausting the developer, per liter of developer, with 1.0 m2 of Structurix D7 material as set forth hereinbefore.
  • UAg was controlled (expressed in mV versus a Ag/AgCl(sat.) reference electrode and should be in the range from 44.5 + 5 mV at a temperature of 70°C + 1°C. 1 minute later pH was set to a value of 5.0 + 0.3 and immediately thereafter a solution of 50 g of inert gelatin in 500 ml of demineralized water of 70°C were added. 3 minutes later B1 was added at a rate of 7.06 ml/min. during 120 seconds, while simultaneously adding by double jet A1 at a rate of 7.5 ml/min.
  • A1 and B1 were added during 2822 seconds at a linearly increasing rate going from 7.0 up to 21.11 ml/min. for A1 and from 7.06 up to 21.29 ml/min. in order to maintain a constant UAg potential of + 40 mV in the reaction vessel.
  • A1 and B1 were simultaneously added by double-jet addition during 60 seconds at a rate of 10.0 and 10.04 ml/min. respectively whereby the UAg value was held at a constant value of 50 mV while increasing the flow rate up to 46.49 ml/min. and 46.69 ml/min. respectively over a total time period of 81 minutes and 5 seconds.
  • the average grain size of the silver bromoiodide tabular ⁇ 111 ⁇ emulsion grains thus prepared, expressed as equivalent circular diameter (E.C.D.) was 1.34 ⁇ m, whereas the average thickness was 0.09 ⁇ m.
  • the variation coefficient of the said E.C.D. was 0.35.
  • Table IV hereinafter clearly shows that, as soon as a gold is present in the chemical ripening step in form of HAuClO4.4H2O in a concentration of 0.015 mmole/mole of AgNO 3 or more, in combination with at least 0.1 mmole of Na 2 SO 3 a lower difference between speed in fresh and in exhausted chemistry of the developer is obtained.
  • the number of gold atoms per per ⁇ m 2 of the grain surface for the lowest gold concentration was about 4650.
  • Fresh G128® developer In exhausted developer D min X1000 Speed D min X1000 Speed Speed Difference Structurix D7 4370041 202 1.40 196 1.48 -0.08 HAuClO 4 .4H 2 O mmole/ mole of Ag Na 2 SO 3 mmole/ mole Ag 0.005 0 148 1.16 145 1.95 -0.79 0.015 0 152 1.13 150 1.31 -0.18 0.025 0 154 1.14 145 1.40 -0.26 0.035 0 155 1.14 146 1.45 -0.30 0.045 0 165 1.13 148 1.36 -0.23 0.005 0.1 152 1.13 148 1.87 -0.74 0.015 0.1 152 1.09 148 1.23 -0.14 0.025 0.1 152 1.11 148 1.23 -0.12 0.035 0.1 150 1.11 149 1.21 -0.10 0.045 0.1 153 1.14 148 1.26 -0.12 0.005 0.2 157 1.

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