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Advia 2120 to detect non-haematological particles

My manager has got a crazy project idea about using the Advia to detect metal particles from salvaged blood in hip replacement operations. The idea is that chromium/cobalt contamination could be excluded by checking for fragments in the salvaged blood. My gut feeling is that this is a non starter because even if you detect particles, you can't prove whether they are metal or bone, but was just wondering if anyone had already attempted this or something similar with measuring non haematological particles?

I am also wondering if the clot filter would remove anything significant and therefore you might get false negatives? I don't know what size fragments the clot filter removes... (for shame).

Thanks in advance.

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