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Processing of silver halide photographic industrial x-ray films

US5447817A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 5, 1994
Grant dateSep 5, 1995
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Expiry dateApr 5, 2014

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S430/168
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

To eliminate the "pi-line" artefact after processing a method of image formation in a silver halide industrial X-ray photographic material is disclosed wherein said material comprises on at least one side of a support, at least one gelatino silver halide emulsion layer and a total amount of silver halide, corresponding to from 6 to 20 g of silver nitrate per square meter and per side, and at least one non-sensitive protective antistress coating and wherein said method proceeds by the steps of exposing said material to direct X-rays and processing the material in an automatic processing machine by development, fixing, rinsing and drying, characterized in that said material further comprises at least one vinyl sulphone compound as a hardening agent in at least one of its hydrophilic layers, that development occurs in a developer comprising as a surfactant at least one anionic alkylphenoxy and/or alkoxy polyalkyleneoxy phosphate ester, sulphate ester, alkyl carboxylic, sulphonic or phosphonic acid and/or a salt thereof and that fixing occurs in a fixer which may comprise at least one alpha-ketocarboxylic acid.

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