K192277 · GE Medical Systems SCS · KPS · Feb 14, 2020 · Radiology
Device Facts
Record ID
K192277
Device Name
CardIQ Flow
Applicant
GE Medical Systems SCS
Product Code
KPS · Radiology
Decision Date
Feb 14, 2020
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 892.1200
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Software as a Medical Device
Indications for Use
CardIQ Flow is a fully integrated post-processing and analysis tool tailored for PET cardiac imaging. CardIQ Flow is designed to provide an easy-to-use and efficient tool aiding clinical interpretation for patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD) with quantification of their severity.
Device Story
CardIQ Flow is a software-based post-processing tool for cardiac PET imaging; integrates functionalities from HeartSee and FullCard Analysis; operates within GE Volume Viewer 3D platform. Inputs: stationary, dynamic, or gated cardiac PET images. Processing: reformatting axial data to heart axis; automated 3D myocardium segmentation; calculation of myocardial perfusion, volumes, ejection fraction, myocardial mass, and transient ischemic dilatation; computation of Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR) and Coronary Flow Capacity (CFC) maps using 3D-tuned formulas. Output: 3D maps, polar plots, statistical reports for clinicians. Used in clinical settings by nuclear medicine physicians, cardiologists, or technicians. Assists clinical interpretation of perfusion images; supports assessment of CAD severity; clinician remains responsible for final diagnosis.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. Device underwent risk analysis, requirements reviews, design reviews, and performance/safety verification and validation testing per GE quality management system (21 CFR 820/ISO 13485). No clinical study data presented.
Technological Characteristics
Software-only device; integrated into Volume Viewer 3D platform. Features automated 3D myocardium segmentation, 3D map rendering, and quantitative analysis of PET perfusion data. Software level of concern: Moderate. No hardware components.
Indications for Use
Indicated for analysis of stationary, dynamic, or gated cardiac PET images in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD). Measurements include perfusion, end-diastolic/end-systolic volumes, stroke volume, ejection fraction, myocardial mass, transient ischemic dilatation, absolute rest/stress myocardial perfusion (cc/min/g), Coronary Flow Reserve, and Coronary Flow Capacity (CFC) maps. Intended for use by trained professionals (nuclear technicians, nuclear cardiology physicians, or cardiologists).
Regulatory Classification
Identification
An emission computed tomography system is a device intended to detect the location and distribution of gamma ray- and positron-emitting radionuclides in the body and produce cross-sectional images through computer reconstruction of the data. This generic type of device may include signal analysis and display equipment, patient and equipment supports, radionuclide anatomical markers, component parts, and accessories.
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February 14, 2020
GE Medical Systems SCS % Ms. Elizabeth Mathew Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager 283 rue de la Miniere Buc, 78530 FRANCE
Re: K192277
Trade/Device Name: CardIQ Flow Regulation Number: 21 CFR 892.1200 Regulation Name: Emission computed tomography system Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: KPS Dated: January 14, 2020 Received: January 15, 2020
Dear Ms. Mathew:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. Although this letter refers to your product as a device, please be aware that some cleared products may instead be combination products. The 510(k) Premarket Notification Database located at https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm identifies combination product submissions. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Sincerely,
For
Thalia T. Mills, Ph.D. Director. Division of Radiological Health OHT7: Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health Office of Product Evaluation and Quality Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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## Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known)
#### K192277
Device Name
CardIQ Flow
Indications for Use (Describe)
CardIQ Flow is an aiding tool for the clinicians to perform analysis of stationary, dynamic, or gated cardiac position emission tomography (PET) images. The measurements include perfusion, end-diastolic volumes, stroke volume, ejection fraction, myocardial mass, and transient ischemic dilatation. Also included is a feature that enables clinicians to visualize reformatted data and make a comparison between stress and rest series. Software is indicated for determining regional and global absolute rest and stress myocardial perfusion in cc/min/g, Coronary Flow Reserve and their combination into the Coronary (CFC) Map in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD) in order to assist clinical interpretation of PET perfusion images by quantification of their severty. It is intended for use by trained professionals, such as nuclear medicine or nuclear cardiology physicians, or cardiologists with appropriate training. The clinician remains ultimately responsible for the final assessment and diagnosis based on standard practices, clinical judgment and interpretation of cardiac images or quantitative data.
| Type of Use (Select one or both, as applicable) | |
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| X Prescription Use (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart D) | Over-The-Counter Use (21 CFR 801 Subpart C) |
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## GE Healthcare 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
## 510(k) Summary
K192277
In accordance with 21 CFR 807.92 the following summary of information is provided:
| Date: | August 21, 2019 |
|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Submitter: | GE Medical Systems SCS<br>Establishment Registration Number - 9611343<br>283 rue de la Miniere<br>78530 Buc, France |
| Primary Contact<br>Person: | Elizabeth Mathew<br>Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager<br>GE Healthcare, (GE Medical Systems, LLC)<br>3000 N Grandview Blvd.,<br>Waukesha, WI - 53188<br>Phone: (262) 424-7774<br>Email: Elizabeth.Mathew@ge.com |
| Secondary Contact<br>Person: | Helen Peng<br>Sr. Regulatory Affairs Director<br>GE Healthcare, (GE Medical Systems, LLC)<br>3000 N Grandview Blvd.,<br>Waukesha, WI - 53188<br>Phone: 262-424-8222<br>Email: Hong.Peng@ge.com |
| Proposed Device: | |
| Device Name: | CardIQ Flow |
| Common/Usual<br>Name: | CardIQ Flow |
| Primary Regulation<br>number: | 21 CFR 892.1200 Emission computed tomography system |
| Primary Product<br>Code: | KPS |
| Secondary Regulation number: | 21 CFR 892.2050 Picture archiving and communications system |
| Secondary Product<br>Code: | LLZ |
| Classification: | Class II |
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GE Healthcare 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
| Primary Predicate Device: | |
|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| Device Name: | HeartSee |
| 510(k) number: | K171303 cleared on September 22, 2017 |
| Regulation number/<br>Product Code: | 21 CFR 892.1200 Emission computed tomography system<br>KPS |
| Classification: | Class II |
| Manufacturer: | University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Texas |
| Predicate Device: | |
| Device Name: | FullCard Analysis |
| 510(k) number: | K061587 cleared on June 23rd, 2006 |
| Regulation number/<br>Product Code: | 21 CFR 892.1200 Emission computed tomography system<br>KPS |
| Classification: | Class II |
| Manufacturer: | GE Healthcare |
Device Description:
The basis for this submission is the introduction of a new software device, CardIQ Flow which integrates the functionalities of the predicate devices HeartSee and FullCard Analysis for the display and analysis of Cardiac PET images. It is built within the framework of the Volume Viewer (K041521) 3D platform, intended to aid clinicians in assessing the myocardial perfusion, myocardial perfusion, myocardial blood flow and wall motion. It is used for the evaluation of patients with known or suspected coronary artery or ischemic heart disease.
This application can be used for:
· Reformatting axial data to the standard axis of the heart. Axial data may have been reconstructed using iterative or FBP algorithms with scatter and attenuation correction, if available.
• Analyzing the myocardial perfusion by the Vertical Long Axis (VLA), Horizontal Long Axis (HLA) and Short Axis (SA) obliques generated from the selected input data.
· Comparing myocardial perfusion in rest and stress studies as well as metabolism in viability studies.
- · Viewing wall motions via synchronized gated beating slices.
- · Investigating the entire left ventricle in one 2D Polar Plot that displays all short axis slices.
- · Comparing myocardial perfusion of corrected and uncorrected datasets.
· Calculation and evaluation of Myocardial Blood Flow (MBF), Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR), and Coronary Flow Capacity (CFC).
· Printing a report designed for referring physicians.
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### Intended use:
CardIQ Flow is a fully integrated post-processing and analysis tool tailored for PET cardiac imaging. CardIQ Flow is designed to provide an easy-to-use and efficient tool aiding clinical interpretation for patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD) with quantification of their severity.
### Indications for use:
CardIQ Flow is an aiding tool for the clinicians to perform analysis of sets of stationary, dynamic, or gated cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) images. The measurements include perfusion, end-diastolic & end-systolic volumes, stroke volume, ejection, myocardial mass, and transient ischemic dilatation. Also included is a feature that enables clinicians to visualize reformatted data and make a comparison between stress and rest series. Software is indicated for determining regional and global absolute rest and stress myocardial perfusion in cc/min/g, Coronary Flow Reserve and their combination into the Coronary Flow Capacity (CFC) Map in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD) in order to assist clinical interpretation of PET perfusion images by quantification of their severity. It is intended for use by trained professionals, such as nuclear technicians, nuclear cardiology physicians, or cardiologists with appropriate training. The clinician remains ultimately responsible for the final assessment and diagnosis based on standard practices, clinical judgment and interpretation of cardiac images or quantitative data.
Technological Characteristic:
CardIO Flow employs the same technologies as those of the Predicates.
HeartSee (K171303) is a software tool for cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) for determining regional and global absolute rest and stress myocardial perfusion in cc/min/g. Coronary Flow Reserve and their combination into the Coronary Flow Capacity (CFC) Map for facilitating the interpretation of PET perfusion images in patients with suspected of known coronary artery disease.
FullCard Analysis (K061587) is a post processing analysis software package designed to provide a totally integrated package including automated processing, visualization, quantification of parameters of myocardial perfusion and function, along with simple reporting capabilities. The parameters include perfusion, end-diastolic & end-systolic volumes, stroke volume, ejection fraction, myocardial mass, and transient ischemic dilatation.
CardIQ Flow is a software which integrates together the functionalities from HeartSee and FullCard Analysis in order to be able to display and analyze Cardiac PET images. CardIQ Flow when compared to HeartSee has the same workflow leading to the computation of the CFC (ROI Deposition, blood flow and CFR computation). CardIQ Flow has based the computation of the different maps on HeartSee's 2D formulas, but has tuned them to 3D in order to augment the clinical review capabilities. Similar to HeartSee, the segmentation in CardIQ Flow can be
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# GE Healthcare 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
manually adjusted using dedicated tools so that the user can control where blood flow will be computed.
CardIO Flow has the same workflow as FullCard Analysis and has incorporated the same formulas as FullCard Analysis to quantify the parameters (perfusion, end-diastolic & end-systolic volumes, stroke volume, ejection fraction, myocardial mass, and transient ischemic dilatation) of myocardial perfusion and function.
As CardIQ Flow is built within Volume Viewer, CardIQ Flow inherits the below existing capabilities from Volume Viewer:
- Display of the maps
- Display of the statistics
- Display of the CFC graph
- ROI deposition
- Report of the maps and statistics
### Comparison
The table below summarizes the feature/technological comparison between the predicate device and the proposed device:
| Specification | Primary<br>Predicate:<br>HeartSee<br>(K171303) | Predicate Device:<br>FullCard<br>Analysis<br>(K061587) | Proposed Device:<br>CardIQ Flow | Comparison |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Workflow for<br>computation<br>of Coronary<br>Flow Capacity<br>(CFC) | ROI Deposition,<br>Blood Flow and<br>Coronary Flow<br>Reserve (CFR)<br>computation | NA | ROI Deposition,<br>Blood Flow and<br>Coronary Flow<br>Reserve (CFR)<br>computation | Proposed device is<br>substantially<br>equivalent to the<br>Primary Predicate<br>Device - HeartSee |
| Myocardium<br>Identification | HeartSee uses a<br>2D box to define<br>the myocardium. | Automatic 3D<br>Myocardium<br>Segmentation<br>algorithm. | Automatic 3D<br>Myocardium<br>Segmentation<br>algorithm. | Substantial Equivalent<br>to the predicate<br>devices. |
| Map Output | 2D maps<br>Rendering | NA | 3D maps Rendering | Substantial Equivalent<br>to the Primary<br>Predicate Device –<br>HeartSee. |
| Measurements | NA | The measurements<br>include perfusion,<br>end-diastolic &<br>end-systolic<br>volumes, stroke | The measurements<br>include perfusion,<br>end-diastolic &<br>end-systolic<br>volumes, stroke | Identical to Predicate<br>Device - FullCard<br>Analysis |
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# GE Healthcare 510(k) Premarket Notification Submission
| | volume, ejection | volume, ejection | | | |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|----------------------|-----|--|--|
| | fraction. | fraction. | | | |
| | myocardial mass, | myocardial mass, | | | |
| | and transient | and transient | | | |
| | ischemic | ischemic dilatation. | | | |
| | dilatation. | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| Determination of Substantial Equivalence: | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| CardIQ Flow has successfully completed the required design control activities per GE's quality | | | | | |
| management system that complies to Quality System Regulations of 21CFR 820 and ISO 13485 | | | The | | |
| following quality assurance measures have been applied to the development of the device: | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| Risk Analysis and Mitigation<br>● | | | | | |
| Requirements Reviews<br>● | | | | | |
| Design Reviews<br>● | | | | | |
| Performance testing (Verification, Validation)<br>● | | | | | |
| ● | Safety testing (Verification) | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| The testing and results did not raise new questions of safety and effectiveness from those associated with | | | | | |
| predicate devices and demonstrated that the CardIQ Flow performs subdistally equivalent to the predicate | | | | | |
| devices. | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| The substantial equivalence was also based on software documentation for a "Moderate" level of concern | | | | | |
| device. | | | | | |
| Conclusion | | | | | |
| GE Healthcare considers CardIQ Flow to be as safe, as effective as the predicate devices, and is | | | | | |
| substantially equivalent to the predicate devices. | | | | | |
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