Acknowledgment
We thank both journals Blood Transfusion (ISSN 1723-2007) and Annals of Laboratory Medicine (ISSN 2234-3814) for granting permission to publish the interferograms, since these results were previously published and are internationally copyrighted (i.e., references 6 and 7) .
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Financial support: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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