FDA-cleared profile

True Definition DL

Ge Healthcare Japan Corporation

Authorized purpose: True Definition DL is a deep-learning CT reconstruction function that enhances high-contrast spatial resolution for bone and lung imaging on compatible CT systems.

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: True Definition DL is a deep-learning CT reconstruction function that enhances high-contrast spatial resolution for bone and lung imaging on compatible CT systems.

Overview status: Source-reviewed overview

Clinical takeaway

Clinical role: True Definition DL is a deep-learning CT reconstruction function that enhances high-contrast spatial resolution for bone and lung imaging on compatible CT systems.

Evidence takeaway

Evidence from the reviewed source record: The exact FDA decision material describes a three-strength deep-learning reconstruction function implemented on compatible Revolution CT and Apex family systems, with design-control and MTF spatial-resolution evaluation. No universal diagnostic sensitivity or specificity claim is established.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
True Definition DL is a deep-learning CT reconstruction function that enhances high-contrast spatial resolution for bone and lung imaging on compatible CT systems.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Intended users
Qualified CT technologists and interpreting physicians.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Care setting and population
CT departments operating the compatible scanner platform and release-specific reconstruction workflow.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Workflow role
Integrated deep-learning or model-based CT reconstruction before professional interpretation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Required input
Raw CT projection data from supported scanner models, protocols, dose levels, and patient sizes.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Output and human action
DICOM CT image series reconstructed at the supported strength, kernel, or quality setting.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Limitations
Bench, phantom, and reader results do not establish universal dose reduction or diagnostic performance across every anatomy, protocol, patient size, or downstream quantitative application.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

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FDA submission
K253686
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
CT/CTA
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Anatomy
Bone and lungs
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Clearance type
510(k)
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2026-03-23
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31

Implementation

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

The public exact-submission material does not establish a complete integration contract. Confirm DICOM, worklist, identity, interfaces, exports, routing, audit behavior, and downtime locally.

Deployment and data flow
Not established in reviewed sources
  • Reviewed sources checked
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

The public exact-submission material does not establish the complete deployment topology, hosting responsibility, availability, upgrade path, or service contract.

Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
  • Vendor confirmation
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Public materials reviewed for this exact release do not establish the complete security posture. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, remote-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.

Training and support
Only qualified ct technologists and interpreting physicians should operate or interpret the product. Local onboarding should cover the exact release, supported population, limitations, failure examples, escalation, downtime, and competency documentation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Monitoring and change control
Monitor by exact hardware, software, model, and algorithm version; patient population; anatomy; protocol; operator; input quality; output edits or overrides; failed studies; repeat acquisition or rework; downstream impact; downtime; incidents; recalls; and updates. Track these product-specific limits: Bench, phantom, and reader results do not establish universal dose reduction or diagnostic performance across every anatomy, protocol, patient size, or downstream quantitative application.
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  • Product family
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Current vendor material is product-family context for K253686; confirm exact cleared version, enabled options, deployment, and local compatibility.

Release and scope verification

Map installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, outputs, and enabled functions to K253686 before acceptance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.

Interoperability acceptance

Exact public integration details remain incomplete; establish and test the supported input, output, identity, routing, archive, and downtime contract locally.

product family · checked 2026-09-04

Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally. Current vendor material is product-family context; confirm exact release, enabled options, deployment, and local compatibility.

Clinical acceptance

Use a signed local test set for the supported population and workflow. Include common and difficult cases, exclusions, acquisition variation, failed or low-quality inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects. Bench, phantom, and reader results do not establish universal dose reduction or diagnostic performance across every anatomy, protocol, patient size, or downstream quantitative application.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-04

Define stop-use, escalation, rollback, and revalidation triggers before production use.

Economic evaluation

Model capital and recurring cost against net staff time after review, throughput, repeat imaging or rework, room time, consumables, infrastructure, training, service, downtime, upgrade, and replacement costs.

product family · checked 2026-09-04

No exact-product price was found in the reviewed public material; productivity or value claims require local evidence.

Lifecycle monitoring

Monitor by exact hardware, software, model, and algorithm version; patient population; anatomy; protocol; operator; input quality; output edits or overrides; failed studies; repeat acquisition or rework; downstream impact; downtime; incidents; recalls; and updates. Track these product-specific limits: Bench, phantom, and reader results do not establish universal dose reduction or diagnostic performance across every anatomy, protocol, patient size, or downstream quantitative application.

product family · checked 2026-09-04

Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes. Current vendor material is product-family context; confirm exact release, enabled options, deployment, and local compatibility.

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 describes a three-strength deep-learning reconstruction function implemented on compatible Revolution CT and Apex family systems, with design-control and MTF spatial-resolution evaluation. No universal diagnostic sensitivity or specificity claim is established.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04
Reported sensitivity
Not applicable
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  • Not applicable
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Sensitivity is not a product-wide endpoint for this system or software function. Compare only an exact endpoint, threshold, population, version, and source if one is later verified.

Reported specificity
Not applicable
  • Not applicable
  • Not applicable
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Specificity is not a product-wide endpoint for this system or software function. Compare only an exact endpoint, threshold, population, version, and source if one is later verified.

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

K253686 FDA evidence package for True Definition DL

  • DesignFDA substantial-equivalence decision with software design-control, phantom, spatial-resolution, and image-quality verification
  • PopulationBone and lung CT images from supported scanner platforms, protocols, and reconstruction settings
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested versionTrue Definition DL configuration described in K253686
  • IndependenceSponsor or vendor study

K253686

Manufacturer evidence submitted for the exact FDA decision. It is not independent clinical validation, and local technical, clinical, privacy, security, and workflow acceptance remains necessary.

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

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

No public list price for the exact cleared configuration was found. Obtain a written quote separating hardware or license basis, implementation, interfaces, infrastructure, training, service, upgrades, renewal, consumables, and exit costs.

Reimbursement and coding
No separate named-product Medicare payment was identified in the reviewed CMS coverage material. Evaluate the product within the applicable imaging, procedural, or surgical service line and verify payer, site-of-service, and coding assumptions independently.
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  • Not applicable
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No product-specific code

No separate named-product payment identified in reviewed public material

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United States

Build a local total-cost and value model; do not infer reimbursement from FDA clearance or approval.

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 2026-09-02 openFDA device-recall snapshot contained no record matched to K253686 by exact native submission identifier. This does not exclude product-family, later, or adverse-event information.
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-04

Exact-identifier review does not prove absence of all product-family safety signals.

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Research record

What has been checked

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Human reviewedStatus
2026-09-20Last searched
27Fields reviewed
12Source 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 material, vendor product page, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, reimbursement policy, 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 K253686: True Definition DL

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2026-03-23 - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: identity, 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. GE HealthCare CT family context

    GE HealthCare - Accessed 2026-09-04

    Scope: productFamilyContext, workflowRole, implementationCapabilities

Research history

  1. K253686 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    human reviewed

  3. Reader overview source-reviewed

    Editorial review

    Source-reviewed editorial overlay

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