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Recall Observatory FDA recall evidence

Device product

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

Z-2254-2012

June 15, 2012

Class II

Product summary

Firm
Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc
Event
Event 62870
Status
Terminated
Classification
Class II
Quantity
165 units
Official record key
device-enforcement:Z-2254-2012

Official wording

Reason: 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

Code information: Echelon, V001 through V061, inclusive. Oasis, M001 through M105, inclusive, M951

Distribution pattern: US Nationwide Distribution - including the states of:: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY and Mexico.

Derived failure modes

  • Device software or design

    reason.device_software_design · v1.0.0

    software error