FDA Enforcement Class II Terminated

Hitachi Echelon MRI System/Oasis MRI, Software. These are software controlled MRI devices. Product Usage: The Echelon and Oasis MR systems are imaging devices, intended to provide the physician with physiological and clinical information that can be useful in diagnosis determination.

Recall: Z-2254-2012 · Reported August 29, 2012

Enforcement

Recall Number
Z-2254-2012
Event ID
62870
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Product Type
Devices
Firm
Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc
Voluntary / Mandated
Voluntary: Firm initiated
Initial Notification
Letter
Report Date
August 29, 2012
Initiation Date
June 15, 2012
Classification Date
August 22, 2012
Termination Date
February 19, 2013
Address
1959 Summit Commerce Park, N/A, Twinsburg, OH, 44087, United States

Description

Hitachi Echelon MRI System/Oasis MRI, Software. These are software controlled MRI devices. Product Usage: The Echelon and Oasis MR systems are imaging devices, intended to provide the physician with physiological and clinical information that can be useful in diagnosis determination.

Reason

Hitachi discovered a software error with a feature called Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR). MPR takes an original volume dataset reconstructed in any plane view and creates a new image set from another view (i.e. axial to coronal, coronal to sagittal, etc.). The error causes the first image in the dataset to have a right/left reversed orientation. The software error can occur randomly when execu

Code Info

Echelon, V001 through V061, inclusive. Oasis, M001 through M105, inclusive, M951

Distribution

US Nationwide Distribution - including the states of:: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY and Mexico.

Quantity

165 units