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DRAWING: DESCRIPTION:
Single Emulsion Film: Supercoat: a layer of hard, protective gelatin
designed to prevent soft emulsion underneath from
being physically or chemically abused by
scratches, abrasions from stacking, skin oils from
handling, and antistatic
Emulsion layer: is made of gelatin in which
photosensitive silver halide crystals are suspended.
PURPOSE: to act as a neutral lucent suspension
medium for the silver halide crystals that must be
separated from one another to permit processing
chemicals to reach them
Base: made of polyester plastic, MUST be flexible
yet tough, stable, rigid, and uniformly lucent, & is
coated with substance to prevent light from one
screen crossing over to the other (which causes
blurring of the image)
Adhesive layer: designed to glue the emulsion to
the base and prevent bubbles or other distortion
when the film is bent during processing or
handling, or when it is wet and heated during
development
Anti-halation: designed to absorb the light coming
from the emulsion and prevent backscatter, visible
light, or reflected light from degrading the image
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Double Emulsion Film: Supercoat: a layer of hard, protective gelatin

designed to prevent soft emulsion underneath from
being physically or chemically abused by
scratches, abrasions from stacking, skin oils from
handling, and antistatic
Emulsion layer: is made of gelatin in which
photosensitive silver halide crystals are suspended.
PURPOSE: to act as a neutral lucent suspension
medium for the silver halide crystals that must be
separated from one another to permit processing
chemicals to reach them
Adhesive layer: designed to glue the emulsion to
the base and prevent bubbles or other distortion
when the film is bent during processing or
handling, or when it is wet and heated during
development
Base: made of polyester plastic, MUST be flexible
yet tough, stable, rigid, and uniformly lucent, & is
coated with substance to prevent light from one
screen crossing over to the other (which causes
blurring of the image)
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Intensifying Screen: Base: made of polyester plastic, MUST be flexible

yet tough, stable, rigid, and uniformly lucent, & is
coated with substance to prevent light from one
screen crossing over to the other (which causes
blurring of the image)
Reflective layer: when added, nearly twice as much
light is reflected toward the film. The increase in
light hitting the film aids in creating the latent
image and decreases patient dose. Some
intensifying screens use dyes to selectively absorb
the longer wavelength light
Phosphor layer: the ACTIVE layer, are capable of
absorbing the energy of an incident x-ray photon
and then emitting light photons
Protective coating: protects the phosphor layer
from abrasions and stains from loading and
unloading, repeated trauma can remove the
coating

**Sensitivity Speck: An impurity added to silver halide crystals

(usually gold-silver sulfide) to act as an electrode that attracts
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free silver ions during latent image formation