Tests show reduced drying times improve toxicology results in whole blood, suggesting faster diagnostics.
Drying whole blood spots for 10 minutes rather than 60 minutes gave equivalent performance by paper spray ionisation–mass spectrometry, preserving identification and quantitation, and enablingconfirmatory toxicology results within 15 minutes.
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