FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc: SOMATOM Emotion 16, the intended use of computed tomography is to produce cross-sectional images of the body by computer reconstruction of x-ray transmission data from either the same axial plane taken at different angels or spiral planes taken at different angles.
- Recall number
- Z-1645-2015
- Recalling firm
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc
- Product
- SOMATOM Emotion 16, the intended use of computed tomography is to produce cross-sectional images of the body by computer reconstruction of x-ray transmission data from either the same axial plane taken at different angels or spiral planes taken at different angles.
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2015-04-20
- Posted
- 2015-05-22
- Terminated
- 2016-09-01
- Reason
- Software bugs in VC20B SP0a or SP1 software versions may cause issues that could make it necessary to rescan patients. Syngo Main UI may crash if the Patient Browser is scrolled with arrow keys of the keyboard. Tomo images may freeze on the screen when zoomed in or out under the mode of CAREVision. Sporadic displaying error in WorkStream4D application. DB may lock under heavy and multitasks.
- Root cause
- Software design
- Action
- Siemens sent an Customer Safety Advisory Notice dated April 20, 2015, to all affected customers. The letter identified the product the problem and the action needed to be taken by the customer. A remote software update is scheduled for release that will resolve the issue. For further questions, please call (610) 219-6300.
- Quantity
- 75
- Distribution
- Nationwide Distribution including Puerto Rico.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- SOMATOM Emotion 16 (2007) 10165977 with serial numbers: 86514 32490 80553 32552 32530 86406 86558 80542 80461 86405 32512 80441 86431 80467 86425 80442 86429 86557 80434 32581 32637 32597 80448 80431 32624 32469 80446 32578 80430
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K133424"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- JAK
- Firm FEI
- 2240869
- Firm city
- Malvern
- Firm state
- PA
- Firm country
- not on file
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- 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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- b87518bfe2e8
- Size
- 288210821 bytes
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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- Refresh due
- 2026-10-06
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