Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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It is normally accepted in the photographic art
that a color contrast fllrn is very deslrable 7 especially
ln the specirlc area of radlographyO
; A color contrast rilm according to the present
invention is capable Or producine upon color development
wlth p-phenylene diamine developers an image of the sub-
~ect in two opposite scales of distinct colors, one
negative and the other positive. Both colors are to be
chosen to "create a contrast"O Contrasting colors are
those colors sufficiently distinct as to be able to de-
fine a distinct border to the eye when viewed next to
each other. For example, the best contrasts are comple-
mentary colors such as blue and yellow or other specif~c~ ,
combinations as blue or blue-green (cyan) and red or red-
blue tmagenta).
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One o~ the recent inventions in this fleld has ~-
been described in Italian Patent 974,830 of the same
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applicant. This system un~ortunately displayed instability -~
in the colloidal silver-imageO
~` 20 Some prior art in this ~eld is U~SO 2,644,096;
-~ 2~593,925, 2,931,904; 2,807,72~, 2,906,881; CH 295,100;
' DT 970,220; 977,204; 1,011,277; 1,046,495; 1,076,490;
;~ 1,135,754; DT-OS 1,946,652 and 2,045,399; FR 1,056,200;
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1,190,520; 1,283,925 and GB 716,064.
In addition, British Patent 1,286,831 describes
a new method based on a materlal which includes (a) at
least one colorless color coupler capable of forming an ~ ~
azomethine quinoneimine dyestu~f by coupling with an - ~-
oxldized aromatic amino developing agent and tb) at least ~ :
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coupling with sai~ colorless coupler t,o form a dye~
Other methods based on "masked'~ color couplers
(couplers which have chromogenlc groups as splitting-off
subsitutents attached to reactive methylene are knownO
These masked couplers are colored before development and
react with p-phenylene diamlne developers to give a
dif~erent color, as for example described in U~S. 2,449,966)
have been tried, but as stated in British Patent 1,286,831,
the secondary or masking image formed in color masking is
of very low density in relation to the main image and it
would be lncompatible with the obJect of color masklng to
make the secondary ima~e otherwise than of such very low
density.
Attempts to make color contrast radiographic
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based on a combination of colorless-masked couplers in a
single layer, as normally known to the sk~lled in the art
of the substractlve process, did not give good results0
A sensitometric analysls on these methods cannot be made
because it is not traditionally meaningful to analyze
the involved sensitometrlc curves (one negative, the other
posltive)O This i5 because of the inter~erence due to the
.. silver reduced upon color development (present in the ~inal
~; image in the form of a negative image) and because o~
.~ secondary absorptions o~ the dyes forméd by the couplers
25 upon color development~ It has been believed that the ;~
couplers inter~ere to negatively affect each other's ;
., .,: ~~ reactivity, but the nature of this interference is not well
.: understoodO This is true, for example, when the couplers
- are lntroduced into the same negative emulsion layer by
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coupler molecules are present in the layer dlssolved ln -~
water-immlscible organic solvents, dlspersed ln the layer --
it~elf in the form o~ very small droplets whlch should
limit every competitive reaction between different specie~ :
of couplers slnee dispersed separately (see in~ra 3~703,375
Table l).
It has been found that very good results can be
; obtained with associating the colorless coupler to a
; negative silver halide layer ana the colored masking coupler
to another negatiYe silver halide layer, said couplers
being preferably dlspersed in the layers dissolved in
- water immiscible organic solventsO
It has also been found that emulsions havlng
~; more speed, that is gralns blgger than those normally used ;~
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`. the quality of the positive image when associated with the
` colored couplers which modulate said positive imageO .
:: It has been found that very good results are : :
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achieved when the emulsion associated with the colored
coupler is more sensitive than that assoGiated with the
.- colorless coupler by at least 3 DIN at a denslty equal
to 0O5 measured at a light of color complementary to the
color formed upon color development o~ the colored coupler .:
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- itselfO For example, when an emulsion is associated with
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:~: a magenta dye, then the sensiti.vity is measured by ex~
: posing the emulsion layer coated on a base at a green
light, lOeO, the contrasting color to that formed by the
dye), processing the expo~ed photographic element in a ;~
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color development bath and ~ixin~ bath of Example l1)
and determining in logE (whsrein E means light energy Or
exposure), from a sensitometric curve, the expo~ure
neceA~ary to get a dens1ty equal to 0~.5; ln the comparative
sensitlvity, every O.l logE of d~r~erence is assumed to
correspond to one DIN Or dlfrerence in sensitivity and
thus it is clear that less exposure corresponds to higher
speed.
The present lnventlon thus rerers to a photo-
~raphia element ror u~e in radiography wh1ch includes a
base and at least two ~i.lver halide emu1sion layers charac-
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: terlzed ~y the ~act that one Or said layer~ is reac~lvelyassoclated wlth a colorless cyan ~orming coupler in a way
: : as to give a negatlve colored~lmage upon color development
wlth p-phenylene~dlamine developers and the other emulsion
~s as~ociated with a colored coupler which constltutes
the positive~image whose color i8 chosen to ~rovlde
.~ ~ the desired color contrast wlth the other dye r`ormed .
(iOe~ 7 the cyan)~ This oontrasting color coupler has a
20 chromogenic group attàched to~the reactive methylcne :~
ln the ooupling position o~ the co~pler, and the chromo-
genl~ group (the group whlch gives a color to the coupler) :
mu~t be what i~ known in the art as a splitting-o~f group. ~ -
Tha~ is, a group capable Or being expelled ~rom thé coupling
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posltlon during reaation with oxidized p phe~ylene diamine
devoloper without requlrlng any silver ion a~ oxidizlng
agent. These couplers mu~t be there~ore two-equlvalent
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color ¢ouplers. Examples of these well-known splittlng-of~
group8, and ~he prererred groups are ary:lazo, pre~erably
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Witll alkyl, alkoxy, halogen, cyano or nitro groups. As these t~o-equivalent
couplers are well known in the art, further description is not believed neces-
sary. I`his coupler with splitting-off ~ k and chromogenic group, upon color
development with p-phenylene diamine developers, generates a colored dye in
the layer itself in the form of a positive image whose color is chosen to make
a color contrast with the cyan color of the negative image.
An example of this would be a colorless cyan coupler and a yellow
colored, magenta forming coupler. The cyan is formed in one layer where .
coupling has taken place, and the yellow is destroyed (and magenta produced)
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in the other layer where coupling has taken place. Thus, a negative cyan, -
positive yellow, and negative magenta image is formed. The contrast would be
blue against yellow. This qualitative example describes one aspect of the
invention.
: The present invention provides a photographic element for use ln
radiography which includes a base and at least two silver halide emulsion ` ~-
. layers, said element characterized by the fact that
``~ 1) silver halide emulsion layers in the element may contain as couplers
only colorless cyan forming couplers and yellow colored couplers,
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2) at least one emulsion layer reactively associated with said colorless
cyan forming coupler so as to give a negative colored cyan image upon ~ ~ `
color development with p-phenylene diamine,
3) the other of said at least two emulsion layers being reactively :~
: associated with said yellow colored coupler so as to leave a yellow
colored positive image and a magenta colored negative image upon ~ ;
color development with p-phenylene diamine.
The present invention refers to a photographic element as per above
: in which said colored coupler is a yellow colored coupler which upon color dev-
' elopment with p-phenylene diamine developers forms a magenta dye in the form
.- of negative image.
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The present invention also refers to a photographic element having
as a colored coupler a magenta (preferably a magenta-reddish) colored coupler
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which upon color development with p-phenylene cli~nine developers forms a ~ .
cyan dye in tlle form of a negative image.
The present invention refers to a photographic element as per
above characterized by having the emulsion layer associated with the
colored coupler directly coated
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on the base and the emulsion assoclated with the colorle~s
coupler coated thereonO
The present invention pre~erably re~ers to a
photographic element as per above havlng coated on one slde
of the base a negatlve emulslon layer as~ociated with a
colored coupler and coated thereon an emulsion layer ~ ~ :
associated with the colorless cyan forming coupler and
coated on the other side of the base a negatlve emulsion
associated with the colorless cyan forming coupler. ~` -
The present lnvention also refers to a photo-
graphic element as per above havlng coated on each side o~
the base a silver halide emulsion layer associated with the
colored coupler and coated thereon a silver halide emulsion
layer associated with the ~olorless cyan forming couplerO .
: 15 The present inventlon more preferably refers to `~
: a photographic element as per above having the silver .
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sensitive than the silver halide emulslon associated with
the colorless coupler of at least 3 DIN at a denslty ; ~ .
equal to 0.5 measured at a light of color complementary
to the color formed upon color development o~ the colored
; coupler itsel~ as described beforeO :
The present invention most pre~erably re~ers ~ ~
to a photographic element as per above having the silver ~ .
halide emulsions associated with a green ~ensitizing dye
in order to improve the sensitometric respon~e o~ the
- photographic elementO :
The present lnvention further ré~ers to a photo-
graphic element as per above including the couplers -
colorless and colored one~,- introduced therein by the
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dispersion techniqueO
The photographic element Or the present invention
may contain acutance dyes pre~erably associated with the
emul~ion layer directly coated on the baseO The color of
these dyes i5 preferably complementary to the color o~ the
llght emitted by an lntensifylng screen used for exposing
the element itsel~ as known to the artO Since the color
Or the light of pre~erred intensifying ~creens is generally . :
blue or green, when used in combination with photographic ~:
lO elements including blue or green sensltizing dyes, a ~ :
good acutance dye to be used within photographic elements ~ :~
according to pre~erred embodiments of the present inven~
:~ tion would be a ma~enta colored dye.
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to get. For example, for having a good blue-yellow color ~ ~:
~; contrast 3 a cyan colorless coupler can be used ln combina-
~: tion with a yellow color coupler which forms a magenta dye ~`
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. : upon color development with p-phenylene dlamine developers. ~ .
- According to the substractive process ~or gettlng
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a color image, cyan is ~ormed by the blue plus green, and
, mage~ta whlch is ~ormed by blue plus red (equal to minus .
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green)O This means that the presence of a ~agenta dye in
~ comblnation with a,cyan dye makes th~ f~nal lmage more blue~ `
.:- 25 improving the color contrast o~ the image itselr.
`.~ A color contrast cyan-magenta turned out to be
` better than a contrast blue-yellow because the magenta
.;- color proved to be less brilliant than the yellow colorO
This can be very good for the eyes of a radiologist who
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Additionally, because of lts acutance dye functlon, -
the magenta dye distributed in the form o~ a uni~orm fllter
before exposure improved the dePinition oP the ~inal image
itself, e~peclally when exposed to green emittlng screens.
Couplers which can be use~ully embodied into ~: :
photographic elements Or the present invention in¢lude,
Por example, the ~ollowing:
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C0 ~N .NH , ~`~
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.` ; U.S. 2,600,788; 2~367,531; 2,369,929; 2,423,730; IT `:~
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` 800,361; 876,084; 883,938. '~
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. One very good green sensitizing dye is the ;
: following one~
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Sensitizing dyes Or thls type have been described
in U.S. 2,503,776 and IT 493,530 and 520,746.
The couplers useful to the scope of the present
invention are preferably introduced into the photographic
elements of the present lnvention by the dispersion tech~
nique as de~cribed for instance in U.S. 2,322,027; 2,801,170;
2,801,171; 2,870,012 and 2,991,177. Briefly, the solvent
dispersion technique involves dissolving a coupler in a
substantially water immiscible organic solvent and then
dispersing the so-prepared solution as extremely fine drop-
lets in a hydrophilic colloldal bindsr. Gelatin is the
pre~erred colloidal binder, but other polymeric colloidal ~ -
binder materials, known to the art3 can also be utilized.
~` Obviously, when the couplers are incorporated into the
emulsion by the solvent dispersion technique, the dyes
`~ derived therefrom upon color development are also con-
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tained (dispersed) in the emulsion dissolved in the
substantially water-immiscible organic solvent~
It is highly desi~rable that the couplers and
the dyes derlved therefrom upon color dévelopment be
- hydrophobic and non-diffusing in order to hare the maximum
definition quality. To thls purpose, the couplers used
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in the present invent~on are prorided with b~ sting
aliphatic chains having a total o~ at least ten carbon
`~ 25 atoms.
The silver halide emulsions use~ul to the scope
;~ of the present lnvention are those normally known to
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iodide emulsions dispersed in gelatin or other equivalent -
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for instance described in U. S. Patents 2,286,215;
2,328,808; 2,322,085; 2,527,872; 2,541,474; 29563,791;
2,768,154; 2,808,331; 2,852,382.
Said binder will preferably consist of gelatin ~ .
5 possibly containing dispersed particles of hydrophobic
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polymer, such as for instance, polyethylacrylate, to - ;
improve the physical characteristics of the final layer. ;; ~-
The layers, thus obtained, can be hardened with
~ hardeners known to those skilled in the art, such as for
; 10 instance epoxides, formaldehyde, glyoxale, succinic,
glutaric and resorcilic aldehyde, mucochloric and muco~
bromic acid, as described in U.S. patent 2,0803019, or .
~ mixtures thereof, as described for instance in U. S.
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~ 15 The above emulsions can be chemically sensitized
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~;~ either by addition of sulfur compounds, as described for
.......... instance:in U. S. 1~ 574,944; 1,623,469 and 2,410,689 and/or
by addition of noble metals, such as rhutenium, rhodium,
iridium, platinum and palladium; or by addition of Au salts, ..
20 as described in U. S. 2,399,083. They also can be stabilized ;
:.~ with Au salts, as described in U. S. 2,597,856 and 2,597,915.
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: antifoggants of the cyclic amine type, iminoazoles, such : :
` as mercaptobenzimidazole; triazoles, such as those des- .` ;.
; 25 cribed in U. S. 2,444,608; azaindenes, such as those described
in U. S. 2,444,605; 2,444,606i 2,444,609; 2,450,397;
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tetrazoles, such as l-phenyl-5-mercapto-tetrazole~
thiazoles and benzothiazoles, such a t l-methyl-benzothiazole
and benzothlazole quaternary salts, as de~cribed ln U S.
; 5 2,131,038; mercapto-benzothiazoles, such as l-methyl-
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pyrimidines, iodonium derivatives; benzen~ulfinic acids;
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such as those described in U. SO 2,839,405~ ~-
The emulslon can ~urther contain any suitable -
plaskicizer, known to the man skilled in the art 3 such as
glycerin or any surfactant which may be useful for coati~g
khe layers on the support base or on each other~
The photographic elements of the present in- -
15 vention are to be developed in p-phenyléne diamine color ~ -~
development baths as normally in the art of color photcg~
raphy. Particularly good results, however, can be
` obtained by using developing baths as described in Itallan
`` Patent 974,830, whlch include a p-phenylene diamine
,~ 20 compound, alkali or ammonium thiosul~ate and phenldone in ;
an aqueous alkaline solution. ~ ~
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Examples of suitable p-phenylene diamine developers,
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which can be employed to develop photographic elements
`~ containing the couplers o~ the present lnvention, are the
~ollowing developers and thelr salks such as the sul~ites,
the hydrochlorides and the sul~ates o~:
,~'t a) N,N--diethyl-phenylene diamine; -
~ b) N-ethyl,N-~-methansulfonamido-ethyl-3~methyl-4-
- aminoaniline;
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dlamine;
d) N-ethyl,N-hydroxyethyl-p-phenylene diamlne,
: e) N,N-dlethyl-2-methyl-p-phenylene diamine.
The development step is generally followed by a
fixing acid bath including thiosulfate ions which have :
the function of stopping the development and carrying
away silver ions in non~exposure areas in the form of
soluble silver-thiosulfate complexes. A washlng step
can follow as a stabilizing bathO
EXAMPLE 1 ~ ~ -
:: A color contrast X-ray film was prepared.by
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.~ coating on each side of a colorless polyester base two
photosensitive layérs and a protective layer following
the sequence given below (corresponding to the following
` structure: p-c-m-b-m~c-p, wherein p = protective layer, .
c = cyan containing layer, m = magenta containing layer,
b = base~
m) A gelatin silver halide photosensitive layer in-
. 20 cluding a bromo-iodide emulsion (3% lodide),
hardeners and stabiIlzers, havlng a silver coating
weight of 0O5 g/m2. The layer also contained 00 23 g/m2
Or yellow masked coupler Cl described beforeO (Such
coupler was introduced into the layer by the solvent
` 25 dispersion technique, according to the follow~ng
method: 6 g~ of the coupler were dissolved in 5 cc. ~ ~ -
of dibutylphthalate, 5 ccO of triphenylphosphate,
and ~6 cc. of ethyl acetate~ This solution was then ~ :
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dispersed in 60 CCD Or a 4% water solutlon of gelatin ~ - ;
; and 5 cc. Or a 10% water solutlon of a surfactant
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bromo-iodide emulsion (3% iodide) lncluding hardeners
and stabilizers, having a silver coating weight of
2O5 g/m2. The layer contained also 3.15 g/m2 of the
; coupler C2 described above (Such ooupler was lntro-
duced into the layer by the solvent dispersion ;
technique, according to the following method: 10 g
of the coupler were dissolved in 1~25 ccO of dibutyl~
phthalate, 1.25 cc. of dibutylformamide, 0O5 gO of
surfactant and 10 ccO of ethyl acetateO This solution
was then dispersed in 32 ccO of a 10% water solution
of gelatin and 10 cc. of a 5~ water solution of sur-
factant).
-~ p) Protective layer ~f hardened gelatin.having a gelatln
~ coating welght of lolO g~m
EXAMPLE 2
: 20 A color contrast X-ray f`llm was coated as des-
cribed in Example 1, with the difference ~hat in thi~
case the layers m~ and c) were optically sensitized
to the green reglon of the spectrum by adding the sensi-
;~ tizing dye Sl described above (about 100 ~moles dye per
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A color contrast X-ray film was coated a~ des-
cribed ln Example 2. In thls exarnple, a~ogeranine as a
: magenta acutance dye was added to the layer m) in a quantity
glvlng a den~ity of about 0~10 when read with a green llght
on a Westrex Densitometer proYided with a filter ~tatus A,
EXAMPLE 4
A color contrast X-ray ~llm was prepared by coating
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on each slde of a colorless polye ter base ~wo photosensitlve
layers and a protective layer ln the following sequence:
,~ m~ A gelatin ~ilver halide photosensitlve layer including
a bromo-iodide emulsion~(2~ iodide having a sensltlvlty
3 DIN hl~her than the emulsi.on described in Example 1,
: mea ured~as previously~described), hardeners and
3tabl11sers and a sllver coating welght~: o~ 0.4 g/m2.
The layer contained also O,Z3 g~m2 of the yellow ma~ked
.-~: coupler Clo In addition, the layer also contained a
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c) A layer as descri~ed in~Example l,
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:~ tized to the ~reen reglon Or the spectrum by addlng ~ensi-
tizing dye Sl a3 ln prev~ous Example 2.
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A color contrast X-ray materlal wa~ coated as
described ln Example 4, with the difference that both
layers m) and c) were prepared including photosensitive
bromo-iodide high speed emulsions simllar to that used
for layer m) of Example 4
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A color contrast X-ray fllm was coated according
: to the followlng scheme: p-m-c-b-c-m-p, wherein m was a :
photosensitlve emulsion layer assbclated with yellow
: magenta forming coupler and green sensitizing dye as layer ::
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as ociated with colorless cyan forming coupler and green
sensitizing dye as layer c) of Example 2; p) was the same
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ester base of Example 1D
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the following scheme p-m-c-b~c-p, wherein m) was a photo-
sensitive emulsion layer as described in Example 2,
associated with oO46 g/m2 of the ~ame yellow magenta
forming coupler, and having a silver coating welght of ; ~ :
`'.. lo O g/m of æilverO The silver halide gralns were
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5 m) was a photosensitive emulslon layer as described ln .~ :
Example 2, with a silver coating weight of 0 8 g/m2 and ; ~ :
a yellow masked coupler coating weight o~ 0.37 g/m2;
c) was a photosensitive emulslon layer as described ln
Example 2, with a silver coating welghk of 2.1 g/m2 and
a coupler coating weight o~ 2.65 g/m2; c') was a photo-
sensitlve emulsion layer as described in Example~2, with
~ a silver coating we~ght of 2.9 g/m2 and a coupler coati~g
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EXAMPLE 9
A color oontrast X-ray film was coated according
~ : to the following scheme: p-c-m-b-c'-p, wherein m) was a
: photosensitive emulsion layer as described in Example 4,
with a silver coating weight of 008 g/m2 and a yellow
masked coupler coating weight o~ 0046 g/m2, c~ was a
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A color contrast X~ray fllm wa~ coated according
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2, having a silver coating weight of 4,7 g/m2 and a coupler
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scope of the present lnventlon
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A color contrast X-ray film was prepared by
coatlng on each side of a colorless polyester base a photo-
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m+c) a sil~er halide photosensitive layer consisting of a
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weight of 3O0 g/m2. The layer contalned also 0.23 g/m2 i~
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A color contrast X~ray fllm prepared according
to Italian Patent 974,830 of the same applicant. The
materials described ln Examples 1 to 10 and Examples A,
5 B and C were exposed, in a flrst case, with two beams of
blue light (one beam for each side), obtalned by filtering
a white light with a 39 Wratten and grey filter having an
optical density of 0.400 In a second case, the same
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B, were exposed with a beam of blue light (obtained as
previously described) on one s1de, and with a beam of green
light (obtained by filtering a white light with a 57
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processed, after exposure, in a rapld automatic processor
as described in Italian Patent 965,8049 with a total
processing time of 138 seconds from dry to dryO The
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N-ethyl-N-hydroxyethyl-p-phenylene
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4g in which the yellow masked coupler was introduced in
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A color contast X-ray film was coated according
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