Patent ID: 7291448

Claim:
A photothermographic material comprising, on at least one side of a support, an image forming layer comprising at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder, and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein the photothermographic material contains a water-insoluble azomethine dye in the form of a solid fine particle dispersion and a metal phthalocyanine dye represented by formula (PC-1): wherein M represents a metal atom; R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , and R 8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; and at least one of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , and R 8 is an electron-attracting group.