FDA-cleared profile

MRCAT brain

Philips Medical Systems MR Finland

Generation of MR-derived attenuation information for photon radiotherapy planning of primary and metastatic brain tumors.

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

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Generation of MR-derived attenuation information for photon radiotherapy planning of primary and metastatic brain tumors.

Overview status: Field-derived fact summary This section is assembled from the sourced field records below; it is not a source-reviewed editorial overview.

Clinical details

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Exact purpose
Generation of MR-derived attenuation information for photon radiotherapy planning of primary and metastatic brain tumors.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Intended users
Trained radiation-oncology and MRI professionals.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Care setting and population
Brain MR simulation and photon-radiotherapy planning environments using compatible Philips MR-RT systems.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08
Workflow role
MR-only simulation support through generation of attenuation information for treatment planning.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
A dedicated brain MR acquisition on a compatible Philips MR-RT system.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.

Output and human action
MR-derived CT-like density information for contouring, dose calculation, and labeled positioning workflows.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
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Limitations
Use is limited to the labeled brain-tumor radiotherapy-planning workflow; healthcare professionals remain responsible for the final treatment plan.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Regulatory identity

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FDA submission
K193109
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
Radiotherapy Planning Imaging
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.

Anatomy
Brain
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-19

Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.

Clearance type
510(k)
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Decision date
2020-01-24
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  • Exact FDA submission
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FDA status
FDA-cleared
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Implementation

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Integration
The MRCAT dataset is generated on the MR console and is intended for DICOM-CT export to compatible treatment-planning systems; local compatibility must be qualified.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Deployment and data flow
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08

The reviewed sources do not establish the current exact-release hosting topology, data flow, region, tenancy, or disaster-recovery configuration.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
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Exact-release security controls, data retention, hosting boundaries, and scoped assurance documentation require vendor confirmation.

Training and support
Vendor documentation pending
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Current training prerequisites, competency checks, and support commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Monitoring and change control
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08

Current drift, quality, uptime, alert, escalation, and incident-response commitments for the exact configuration require vendor confirmation.

Current product-family workflow context

Philips describes MRCAT Brain as an MR-only radiotherapy-planning application that generates CT-like density information from a dedicated brain MR scan for contouring and dose-calculation workflows.

product family · checked 2026-09-08

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Evidence

Performance evidence

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Evidence summary
Research pending
  • Needs research
  • Exact FDA submission
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No exact-version evidence summary has been curated yet.

Reported sensitivity
Research pending
  • Needs research
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This field has not been curated yet.

Reported specificity
Research pending
  • Needs research
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Costs and setup

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Pricing and total cost
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08

No public price or quote for the exact K193109 configuration was established in this review.

Reimbursement and coding
Not established in reviewed sources
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-08

No exact-product payer policy, coding instruction, or payment determination was established; eligibility must be evaluated by payer, site of service, and use case.

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
The exact-identifier FDA recall query returned no native recall record for K193109. This limited result does not establish absence of recalls or other safety information and does not cover later versions, family records, MAUDE reports, corrections, or field notices.
  • Public source
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Research record

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Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-19Last searched
15Fields reviewed
10Source classes checked
0Awaiting review PubMed leads
0Awaiting review trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Recovered from the prior exact-submission extraction and normalized under the current provenance rules. Exact FDA support assessed on 2026-09-19. Packet-supported facts: purpose, modality, anatomy, input; packet-unavailable facts: intendedUsers, output, limitations, evidenceSummary. Candidate literature and postmarket candidates remain in their existing review state. Automated exact-name discovery found 0 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Candidates require human product and version matching; zero candidates is not evidence that no studies exist. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads remain unpublished until a human confirms the exact product and tested version.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, vendor product page, fda device recall, literature index, trial registry, fda decision summary packet, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources & history

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Source ledger

  1. FDA K193109: MRCAT brain

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2020-01-24 - Accessed 2026-09-19

    Scope: identity, clinicalUse, modality, anatomy, workflow, evidence, implementation, purpose, input

  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. openFDA Device Recall API

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

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  6. openFDA exact recall query for K193109

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: postmarketSafety

  7. MRCAT Brain MR-RT clinical application

    Philips - Accessed 2026-09-08

    Scope: productFamily, clinicalWorkflow, implementationCapabilities

Research history

  1. K193109 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

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