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Health product recall

Brilliance 40/64 Slice CT System, Ingenuity CT System (2016-08-29)

Starting date:
August 29, 2016
Type of communication:
Medical Device Recall
Subcategory:
Medical Device
Hazard classification:
Type II
Source of recall:
Health Canada
Issue:
Medical Devices
Audience:
General Public, Healthcare Professionals, Hospitals
Identification number:
RA-60148

Affected Products

  1. Brilliance 40/64 Slice CT System
  2. Ingenuity CT System

Reason

Philips has become aware that while performing high resolution head scans, the reconstructed images may exhibit degraded image quality manifested as:

  • non uniformity of the image
  • CT number shift, greater than 5 Hounsfield units
  • reduction in gray/white matter differentiation

the issue is most severe in the high resolution mode. Philips provides factory reference pediatric scan protocols which are set to high resolution by default. Adult head scans have a factory reference protocol that defaults to standard resolution which does not experience the issue

Affected products

A. Brilliance 40/64 Slice CT System

Lot or serial number
  • 10213
  • 9074
  • 9920
  • 9923
Model or catalog number
  • 4550 110 09021
Companies
Manufacturer
Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc.
595 MINER ROAD
CLEVELAND
Ohio
UNITED STATES

B. Ingenuity CT System

Lot or serial number

30003
30004
320123
32021
320227

Model or catalog number

728323
728326

Companies
Manufacturer
Philips Medical Systems (Cleveland) Inc.
595 MINER ROAD
CLEVELAND
Ohio
UNITED STATES