Focal Radiation Treatment Planning System, Focal Release 4.40.00 and above. Product Usage: for use in radiation treatment planning using generally accepted contouring methods. The Focal software allows users to access XiO and other RTP systems from a remote PC-based system and provides the user with the ability to edit and modify patient data from a Windows-based PC and transfer the information back to the RTP system.
This recall has been terminated (originally issued June 20, 2011).
- Company
- Computerized Medical Systems Inc
- Recall Initiated
- January 19, 2009
- Posted
- June 20, 2011
- Terminated
- April 10, 2014
- Recall Number
- Z-2594-2011
- Quantity
- 31
- Firm Location
- Maryland Heights, MO
- Official Source
- View on FDA website ↗
Reason for Recall
Focal: the couch position can be moved between scans of the same CT study. When the images are imported into Focal, the software is not checking the DICOM Image Position (Patient) tag and therefore is not aligning the images sets if there are different couch positions indicated. A shift between image sets will exist of the same amount that the CT couch was moved.
Distribution
Worldwide Distribution -- USA (nationwide) including states of: CA, CO, FL, IL, IN, KS, MO, NC, OH, OK, PA, TN, and WA. and countries of Australia, Austria, Canada, India, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, and United Kingdom.
Lot / Code Info
Focal Release 4.40.00 and above
Root Cause
Software design
Action Taken
Elekta CMS Software sent an "ADVISORY NOTICE" dated January 19, 2009 to its affected customers. The notice identified the product, the problem, and the acton to be taken. Customers were informed that the workaround method available is to (use the image fusion feature already in Focal to relign the scans). The firm states that this issue is resolved in Focal version 4.62.00, which was released in March 2011. If you have any questions, please call 314-993-0003 or toll free 800-878-4267.