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Abstract

A radiation-sensitive emulsion comprised of silver halide grains (a) containing greater than 50 mole percent chloride, based on silver, (b) having greater than 50 percent of their surface area provided by {100} crystal faces, and (c) having a central portion accounting for up to 99 percent of total silver and containing a first dopant of Formula (I) and a second dopant of Formula (II): [ML.sub.6].sup.n (I) wherein n is zero, -1, -2, -3 or -4; M is a filled frontier orbital polyvalent metal ion, other than iridium; and L.sub.6 represents bridging ligands which can be independently selected, provided that at least four of the ligands are anionic ligands, and at least one of the ligands is a cyano ligand or a ligand more electronegative than a cyano ligand; [TE.sub.4(NZ)E'].sup.r (II) wherein T is Os or Ru; E.sub.4 represents bridging ligands which can be independently selected; E' is E or NZ; r is zero, -1, -2 or -3; and Z is oxygen or sulfur; wherein the silver halide grains have an average equivalent spherical diameter of less than 0.9 micrometer, the dopant of Formula (II) is located within an inner core of the grains comprising up to 60 percent of the total silver, and the dopant of Formula (I) is located in an outer dopant band which is separated from the inner core by at least 10 percent of the total silver. Significantly improved latent image keeping performance can be obtained for optical and digital exposed elements which comprise silver halide grains in an emulsion layer doped with a dopant of Formula (I) and a dopant of Formula (II) as described above, while substantially maintaining other desired photographic parameters.

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