Z-2254-2012 Class II Terminated

Recalled by Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc — Twinsburg, OH

Recall Details

Product Type
Devices
Report Date
August 29, 2012
Initiation Date
June 15, 2012
Termination Date
February 19, 2013
Voluntary/Mandated
Voluntary: Firm initiated
Product Quantity
165 units

Product 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 for Recall

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

Distribution Pattern

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.

Code Information

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