Patent ID: 7157220

Claim:
A photothermographic material having, 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, and a reducing agent for the organic silver salt and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein the photothermographic material contains a phthalocyanine compound represented by the following formula (PC-1): wherein in formula (PC-1), M represents a hydrogen atom or a metal atom; R 1 , R 4 , R 5 , R 8 , R 9 , R 12 , R 13 , and R 16 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; at least one of R 1 , R 4 , R 5 , R 8 , R 9 , R 12 , R 13 , and R 16 represents an electron-attracting group; and R 2 , R 3 , R 6 , R 7 , R 10 , R 11 , R 14 , and R 15 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.