GE Healthcare SIGNA Premier MRI scanners recalled for steel fittings hazard
Check your GE SIGNA Premier MRI scanner
GE Healthcare SIGNA Premier whole-body MRI scanners may have steel fittings instead of brass fittings on the magnet rear. During service work while the magnet is powered up, the magnetic field could pull on these steel parts, risking injury to technicians.
- If you operate or service a SIGNA Premier scanner, contact GE Healthcare immediately for inspection and correction
- Do not allow service access to the magnet rear while the system is ramped (powered) until fittings are verified
Whole-Body MR scanners used to produce images of the inside of the human body to aid diagnosis of disease may have been manufactured/serviced with ferrous (steel) fittings instead of non-ferrous (brass) fittings on the magnet rear and if system is accessed to perform service while the magnet is ramped, the magnetic field could attract the ferrous fittings potentially resulting in personnel injury.
Official notice
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=Z-1767-2026Don't want to check this manually?
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