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Philips North America, LLC: Emission Computed Tomography System Image Process System - Product Usage: intended for general Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body.

Recall number
Z-0852-2021
Recalling firm
Philips North America, LLC
Product
Emission Computed Tomography System Image Process System - Product Usage: intended for general Nuclear Medicine imaging procedures for detection of radioisotope tracer uptake in the patient body.
Status
Terminated
Initiated
2020-11-19
Posted
not on file
Terminated
2023-04-19
Reason
A software defect that has the potential to result in image misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment of a patient.
Root cause
Device Design
Action
On 11/23/2020, Philips issued Urgent Device Correction notices to customers via press release, letter, telefax, telephone, e-mail, visit, etc. Due to a software defect Philips is notifying all affected users of the JETStream Workspace Thyroid Analysis application recommending that customers calculate thyroid uptake utilizing the method provided in the notices and not using the Transfer Coefficient parameter.
Quantity
2714
Distribution
Worldwide distribution - US Nationwide distribution and the countries of Canada, Mexico, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Columbia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Venezuela.
Lot, serial or model codes
Model# 882310,882311,882313 All Lots
510(k) numbers
["K042880","K061029"]
PMA numbers
not on file
Product code
LLZ
Firm FEI
1218950
Firm city
Andover
Firm state
MA
Firm country
not on file

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Size
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Published
2026-09-28
Read
2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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