FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Brainlab AG: ExacTrac versions 6.x patient positioning systems are used to position patients during radiosurgery or radiotherapy procedures..
- Recall number
- Z-1316-2015
- Recalling firm
- Brainlab AG
- Product
- ExacTrac versions 6.x patient positioning systems are used to position patients during radiosurgery or radiotherapy procedures..
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-02-16
- Posted
- 2015-03-25
- Terminated
- 2017-02-28
- Reason
- The ExacTrac 6.x Patient Positioning System may incorrectly position the patient when using the ExacTrac Cone Beam CT (CBCT) with a TrueBeam-specific optional subvolume-CBCT.
- Root cause
- Software in the Use Environment
- Action
- BrainLab sent an FIELD SAFETY NOTICE / PRODUCT NOTIFICATION letters dated February 16, 2015, to all affected customers. The letters included instructions for customers to: 1) Do not use any actively re-reconstructed CBCT subvolumes from the Varian TrueBeam system with the Brainlab ExacTrac 6.x CBCT Import & Alignment Software module; 2) Import exclusively original, not modified, CBCT volumes into ExacTrac to use for patient positioning; and, 3) Continue to verify any ExacTrac CBCT-based correction using the ExacTrac X-ray verification and/or an external IGRT procedure as mandatory. Brainlab provided existing potentially affected ExacTrac v.6.x CBCT Import & Alignment Software customers (with a Varian TrueBeam system) with the product notification information. Brainlab will provide a software update with this issue solved to affected customers. Brainlab will actively contact the customer starting August 2015 to schedule the update installation. For further questions please call Customer Hotline + 49 89 99 15 68 44 or 1-800 597-5911 ( For US Customers only)
- Quantity
- 24 systems (US); 36 systems (Foreign)
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - USA and to the countries of : Australia, Austria, Canada Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea and United Kingdom.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- ExacTrac versions 6.x including versions 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5; and v. 6.1.0. Model/Catalog Numbers: 49971, CBCT IMPORT & ALIGNMENT SOFTWARE; 20836, EXACTRAC 6.0 VARIAN CBCT LICENSE; The software may be contained in configured items: 48320, ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE 6.0 TO 6.1; 48320-99, ET UPGRADE SOFTWARE 6.0 TO 6.1 SLA; 49973B, ET DATA PREP / REVIEW SYSTEM; 49973A, ET DATA PREP / REVIEW SYSTEM; 49973, ET DATA PREP / REVIEW SYSTEM; 49998B, ET 6.0 DATA PREP/REVIEW SYSTEM UPG. KIT; 49998A, ET 6.0 DATA PREP/REVIEW SYSTEM UPG. KIT; 49998, ET 6.0 DATA PREP/REVIEW SYSTEM UPG. KIT; 48304, ET 6.1 DATA PREP/REVIEW SYSTEM UPG. KIT; 48302, ET DATA PREP / REVIEW SYSTEM
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K120789"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- IYE
- Firm FEI
- 3002619595
- Firm city
- Feldkirchen
- Firm state
- not on file
- Firm country
- Germany
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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