FDA-cleared profile

MAGNETOM Viato.Mobile

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.

Authorized purpose: The MAGNETOM Viato.Mobile is an MR diagnostic device that produces transverse, sagittal, coronal, and oblique cross-sectional images, spectroscopic images or spectra, and other physical parameters displaying the internal structure or function of the head, body, or extremities; it may be used during interventional procedures with MR-compatible devices.

Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Product overview

Start with the essentials

Authorized purpose: The MAGNETOM Viato.Mobile is an MR diagnostic device that produces transverse, sagittal, coronal, and oblique cross-sectional images, spectroscopic images or spectra, and other physical parameters displaying the internal structure or function of the head, body, or extremities; it may be used during interventional procedures with MR-compatible devices.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: The MAGNETOM Viato.Mobile is an MR diagnostic device that produces transverse, sagittal, coronal, and oblique cross-sectional images, spectroscopic images or spectra, and other physical parameters displaying the internal structure or function of the head, body, or extremities; it may be used during interventional procedures with MR-compatible devices.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: The exact FDA decision material for K232482 supports the submission-specific intended use and regulatory verification summarized here; it does not establish a general product-wide sensitivity or specificity value.

Clinical details

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Exact purpose
The MAGNETOM Viato.Mobile is an MR diagnostic device that produces transverse, sagittal, coronal, and oblique cross-sectional images, spectroscopic images or spectra, and other physical parameters displaying the internal structure or function of the head, body, or extremities; it may be used during interventional procedures with MR-compatible devices.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Intended users
Appropriately trained healthcare professionals, with image interpretation by a trained physician where stated in the exact labeling.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Care setting and population
Hospital, clinic, outpatient, or other labeled clinical MR environment.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Diagnostic magnetic-resonance image acquisition and display, with release-specific reconstruction or derived-image functions where labeled.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
Supported MR acquisitions, pulse sequences, coils, and optional contrast agents within the exact labeled configuration.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Output and human action
Cross-sectional MR images and, where labeled, spectra, parametric maps, dynamic images, or derived physical parameters for professional interpretation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Limitations
Use only the exact labeled scanner, field strength, coils, sequences, contrast conditions, patient population, and anatomy; images require trained-physician interpretation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

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FDA submission
K232482
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
MRI
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Anatomy
Head, body, and extremities
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Clearance type
510(k)
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Decision date
2023-09-06
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
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Implementation

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Integration
The exact FDA indication identifies imaging during interventional procedures when performed with MR-compatible devices; local device compatibility, room, display, routing, and procedure workflow require confirmation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Deployment and data flow
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Exact deployment topology, hosting, network boundaries, PHI flow, retention, update mechanism, and local operational requirements are not established for this submission.

Security and privacy
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Public sources reviewed here do not establish the complete exact-release security posture, including identity, audit, encryption, retention, remote access, vulnerability management, backup, or incident response.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Training, onboarding, competency, and support commitments are commercial implementation details that require current vendor documentation.

Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Local acceptance testing, production monitoring, drift review, update control, and incident escalation require a current vendor and site-specific governance plan.

Workflow role

Diagnostic magnetic-resonance image acquisition and display, with release-specific reconstruction or derived-image functions where labeled.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Submission-anchored workflow summary, not a local acceptance or deployment result.

Input

Supported MR acquisitions, pulse sequences, coils, and optional contrast agents within the exact labeled configuration.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Exact supported inputs and protocol limits must be confirmed from the complete labeling.

Output

Cross-sectional MR images and, where labeled, spectra, parametric maps, dynamic images, or derived physical parameters for professional interpretation.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Output review, editing, approval, export, and downstream use remain release- and site-specific.

Deployment evidence

Exact deployment topology and operational boundaries remain unestablished.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Confirm hosting, PHI flow, retention, access, updates, downtime, and support obligations before procurement or clinical use.

Integration evidence

The exact FDA indication identifies imaging during interventional procedures when performed with MR-compatible devices; local device compatibility, room, display, routing, and procedure workflow require confirmation.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Validate the local workflow against the exact release and enabled options.

Vendor family context

Current vendor material is product-family context for K232482 only; exact release, enabled options, deployment, security, interoperability, pricing, and local workflow require confirmation.

product family · checked 2026-09-04

Vendor material is not exact-release evidence unless that linkage is separately proven.

Evidence

Performance evidence

Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version. Candidate literature without exact product and version linkage is not shown as product evidence.

Evidence summary
The exact FDA decision material for K232482 supports the submission-specific intended use and regulatory verification summarized here; it does not establish a general product-wide sensitivity or specificity value.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
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Reported sensitivity
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
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No exact-submission and version-linked sensitivity endpoint is promoted; candidate or product-family values were not substituted.

Reported specificity
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

No exact-submission and version-linked specificity endpoint is promoted; candidate or product-family values were not substituted.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

FDA submission-specific verification and validation evidence for K232482

  • DesignFDA 510(k) regulatory decision material and submission-specific verification or validation evidence for K232482; this is regulatory evidence, not an independent clinical effectiveness study.
  • PopulationThe labeled population, anatomy, images, and test materials described in the exact FDA decision material for K232482; a broader clinical population is not established here.
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionMAGNETOM Viato.Mobile (K232482)
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K232482

The exact FDA material is submission-specific and should not be generalized to other versions, enabled options, sites, protocols, or clinical outcomes.

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

These are common procurement questions; unknown values remain visible until a source supports them.

Pricing and total cost
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

No public exact-release price, license fee, subscription, contract, or implementation cost was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not applicable
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  • Not applicable
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CMS coverage-index context was checked, but no product-specific coverage or reimbursement determination is inferred.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

No native submission-identifier match was found in the checked openFDA radiology recall snapshot. Product-name, manufacturer, and adverse-event searches remain necessary; this does not establish that no recall or safety report exists.

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Research record

What has been checked

This audit distinguishes completed source review from fields that have not yet been researched.

Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-20Last searched
31Fields reviewed
13Source classes checked
0Screened PubMed leads
0Screened trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

The refreshed discovery snapshot contains no PubMed or ClinicalTrials.gov candidates; no external evidence was promoted. The current discovery snapshot contains 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records; its dated, count-matched human screening remains current. Unlinked candidates remain quarantined. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads were screened against the exact product and tested version. Unlinked records remain quarantined.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, vendor product page, implementation documentation, reimbursement policy, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

How this profile was documented

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Source ledger

  1. FDA 510(k) decision material K232482: MAGNETOM Viato.Mobile

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2023-09-06 - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: identity, productIdentity, purpose, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, intendedUsers, careSetting, workflowRole, input, output, limitations, evidenceSummary

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  4. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  5. Medicare Coverage Database

    Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: coverage, codingContext

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-02

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  7. Siemens MAGNETOM MRI family context

    Siemens Healthineers - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: productFamilyContext

Research history

  1. K232482 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

  3. Reader overview source-reviewed

    Editorial review

    Source-reviewed editorial overlay

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