A biochemical analysis unit includes a substrate made of a material
capable of attenuating radiation energy and/or light energy and formed
with a plurality of holes, and a plurality of absorptive regions formed
by forming an absorptive region in every hole. According to the thus
constituted biochemical analysis unit, even in the case where the
absorptive regions are formed at a high density, when a stimulable
phosphor layer formed on a stimulable phosphor sheet is exposed to a
radioactive labeling substance contained in the plurality of absorptive
regions, electron beams (.beta. rays) released from the radioactive
labeling substance contained in the individual absorptive regions are
reliably prevented from being scattered in the substrate and advancing to
regions of the stimulable phosphor layer that should be exposed to
electron beams released from absorptive regions formed in neighboring
holes. Therefore, it is possible to efficiently prevent noise caused by
the scattering of electron beams released from the radioactive labeling
substance from being generated in biochemical analysis data produced by
irradiating the stimulable phosphor layer exposed to the radioactive
labeling substance with a stimulating ray and photoelectrically detecting
stimulated emission released from the stimulable phosphor layer and to
produce biochemical analysis data having a high quantitative accuracy.