Heat-developable photosensitive material and image forming method which uses the same.

摘要

A heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a photosensitive layer formed on a support, the photosensitive layer at least containing an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, a photosensitive silver halide or a photosensitive silver halide forming agent, and a sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I): <CHEM> where r is hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted or unsubstituted amino, r<1> and r<2> are each substituted or unsubstituted aryl or r<1> and r<2> are bonded to each other to form a condensed ring, r<3>, r<4> and r<5> are each halogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl, X<1> is oxygen, sulfur, carbon, nitrogen or selenium, wherein when X<1> is carbon or nitrogen, then X<1> is boned to hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl, X<2> is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen, wherein when X<2> is nitrogen, then X<2> is bonded to hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl, X<3> is oxygen or sulfur, and n is 1 or 2. A polymerizable polymer precursor and a light polymerization initiator may also be employed in the material. <IMAGE>