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Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc: Biograph 6, Biograph PET/CT Scanner, Catalog No. 8728573, Manufactured by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., 810 Innovation Drive, Knoxville, TN 37932 USA, TEL: 865-218-2534
- Recall number
- Z-0250-2008
- Recalling firm
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc
- Product
- Biograph 6, Biograph PET/CT Scanner, Catalog No. 8728573, Manufactured by Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., 810 Innovation Drive, Knoxville, TN 37932 USA, TEL: 865-218-2534
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2007-07-23
- Posted
- 2008-01-04
- Terminated
- 2009-09-11
- Reason
- Visual asymmetric appearance; An asymmetry can be introduced into the attenuation-corrected PET images when using iterative reconstruction in combination with a specific number of subsets and reconstruction matrix sizes. (This problem only occurs when using protocols other than the default Biograph protocols)
- Root cause
- Software design
- Action
- A certified letter-Urgent Device Correction- dated June 15, 2007 was sent to all affected consignees on July 23, 2007 informing them of the problem (PET iterative reconstruction algorithm) and requesting as a short term fix that they discontinue the practice of operating using protocols other than the default Biograph. Software upgrades as the long term fix were promised in the Urgent Device Correction Notice. Updated information received October 4, 2007: a software patch to fix PETsyngo 5.0 was released, software patch to fix PETsyngo 4.x was released, and target date for the software patch to fix PETsyngo 3.2 and 3.4 is the end of November 2007.
- Quantity
- 6 units
- Distribution
- Worldwide-USA and countries of Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Thailand, Turkey, and Taiwan.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Serial Numbers: 401010, 401014, P0006939-0401002, P0006939-0401007, P0006939-0401008, and P0006939-0401012
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K002584","K003541","K940478","K962797"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- KPS
- Firm FEI
- 1034973
- Firm city
- Knoxville
- Firm state
- TN
- Firm country
- not on file
Where this comes from
- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
- sha256
- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
- Source file
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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