Reported Aug 29, 2012 · Terminated

Hitachi Echelon MRI System/Oasis MRI, Software. These are software controlled MRI devices. Product Usage: The Echelon…

Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc.

Moderate riskThis product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.

What you should do

Stop using the affected lot and contact the recalling firm for the return or refund process. Check the FDA enforcement report for lot-level detail.

Firm contact: Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc · 1959 Summit Commerce Park · Twinsburg, OH · 44087

Is this the product you have?

  • Hitachi Echelon MRI System/Oasis MRI, Software. These are software controlled MRI devices
  • Product UsageThe Echelon and Oasis MR systems are imaging devices, intended to provide the physician with physiological and clinical information that can be useful in diagnosis determination
Lot codes and dates
  • Echelon, V001 through V061, inclusive. Oasis, M001 through M105, inclusive, M951
Amount recalled
165 units

Where it was sold

Why it was recalled

Hitachi discovered a software error with a feature called Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR). MPR takes an original volume dataset reconstructed in any plane view and creates a new image set from another view (i.e. axial to coronal, coronal to sagittal, etc.). The error causes the first image in the dataset to have a right/left reversed orientation. The software error can occur randomly when execu

This product could cause temporary or reversible health problems — stop using it.

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Where this came from

Source: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA)

Read the FDA (openFDA device enforcement) notice

Notice updated Feb 19, 2013 · Data as of Sep 19, 6:11 PM UTC

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