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Advantage CT/PET Fusion for Advantage Windows Workstation with Volume View CT Colonography/Navigator 2 software. (Versio

FDA device recall Z-0854-06 · posted 2006-05-09 · Terminated

Recall details

Recalling firm
General Electric Med Systems LLC
Reason for recall
Display in fused mode- viewer allows 2 studies ( PET/CT) registered in the same spatial domain to be viewed simultaneously. These 2 images should be visually aligned to a precision of less than 1/2 PET Voxel. A problem associated with this version of software may introduce a shift of up to 1.5 PET Voxels, which can be as much as 8 mm with certain zoom factors.
Action taken
An Urgent Safety Notice letter, dated October 8, 2004,(5121309-147, rev.E) was distributed to affected customers and a validated software patch that corrected the problem was installed on affected systems via Field Modification Instruction (FMI) 80114.
Root cause
Other
Status
Terminated
Product code
LLZ
Quantity affected
199
Distribution
Distributed in 32 states: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV; Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Switzerlan
Date initiated
2004-10-08
Date posted
2006-05-09
Date terminated
2006-12-31
Location
Waukesha, WI

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