ExacTrac versions 6.x patient positioning systems are used to position patients during radiosurgery or radiotherapy procedures..

The ExacTrac 6.x Patient Positioning System may incorrectly position the patient when using the ExacTrac Cone Beam CT (CBCT) with a TrueBeam-specific optional subvolume-CBCT.

BrainLab sent an FIELD SAFETY NOTICE / PRODUCT NOTIFICATION letters dated February 16, 2015, to all affected customers. The letters included instructions for customers to: 1) Do not use any actively re-reconstructed CBCT subvolumes from the Varian TrueBeam system with the Brainlab ExacTrac 6.x CBCT Import & Alignment Software module; 2) Import exclusively original, not modified, CBCT volumes into ExacTrac to use for patient positioning; and, 3) Continue to verify any ExacTrac CBCT-based correction using the ExacTrac X-ray verification and/or an external IGRT procedure as mandatory. Brainlab provided existing potentially affected ExacTrac v.6.x CBCT Import & Alignment Software customers (with a Varian TrueBeam system) with the product notification information. Brainlab will provide a software update with this issue solved to affected customers. Brainlab will actively contact the customer starting August 2015 to schedule the update installation. For further questions please call Customer Hotline + 49 89 99 15 68 44 or 1-800 597-5911 ( For US Customers only)