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Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc: Brilliance BigBore Oncology CT - 728243 Computed Tomography X-ray systems intended to produce cross-sectional Images of the body by computer reconstruction of X-ray transmission data taken at different angles and planes. These devices may include signal analysts and display equipment, patient and equipment supports, components, and accessories. This information may be used by a trained healthcare professional as a diagnostic tool for the visualization and analysis of anatomical and pathological structures.
- Recall number
- Z-1492-2017
- Recalling firm
- Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc
- Product
- Brilliance BigBore Oncology CT - 728243 Computed Tomography X-ray systems intended to produce cross-sectional Images of the body by computer reconstruction of X-ray transmission data taken at different angles and planes. These devices may include signal analysts and display equipment, patient and equipment supports, components, and accessories. This information may be used by a trained healthcare professional as a diagnostic tool for the visualization and analysis of anatomical and pathological structures.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2017-02-23
- Posted
- not on file
- Terminated
- 2019-02-26
- Reason
- When the user performs a retrospective respiratory gated 4D CT scan with the Bellows pulmonary gating device, the CT images might be reconstructed at a single phase, while the annotations on the images incorrectly indicate that the reconstruction is from the requested specific phases (0% to 90%).
- Root cause
- Software design
- Action
- Philips sent an Urgent Field Safety Notice dated February 24, 2017, to all affected consignee's via certified mail with returned receipts for tracking purposes. Philips Key Market representatives will distribute the notices internationally. A Field Service Engineer will contact each site to schedule a time to implement the Field Change Order. Implementation of the software update will be monitored. Consignees requiring further information or support concerning this issue were instructed to contact their local Philips representative. For North America and Canada, contact the Customer Care Solutions Center at 1-800-722-9377.
- Quantity
- 11
- Distribution
- Worldwide Distribution - US to AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OH, TX & WI; Internationally to the following countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Israel, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, New Cldonia, Romania, Russian Federation, Turkey, & United Kingdom.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- System Serial Number - 76002, 76008, 76010, 76011, 76016, 76020, 76021, 76022, 76023, 76024, 76025
- 510(k) numbers
- K033357
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JAK
- Firm FEI
- 1525965
- Firm city
- Cleveland
- Firm state
- OH
- 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
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- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
- Source file
- Source file retained · verify
- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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