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System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

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openFDA event book System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#332 of 1000 · 4,713 reports · 1992–2026

  • BOOK 4,713 reports
  • RANK #332 of 1000
  • DEATH 37 death-typed
  • INJ 2,168 injury-typed
  • MALF 2,041 malfunction
  • SPAN 1992–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 1,279
  • PHOTO Apparatus

Nearest event-volume peer: Apparatus, Suction, Single Patient Use, Portable, Nonpowered (7 report gap)

System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging sits #332 of 1000 among tracked device types with 4,713 MAUDE reports spanning 1992–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Malfunction reports sit below the device-type norm

System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging carries 43.3% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 21.5pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.8% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-0.7 pp)
  • INJ 46.0% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+15.7 pp)
  • MALF 43.3% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-21.5 pp)

Lead product-problem code Detachment of Device or Device Component is 33% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS NEDERLAND B.V. accounts for 42% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 74% of location-tagged rows .

System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging carries 4,713 MAUDE reports, ranked #332 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Injury 2,168 (46.0%)
Malfunction 2,041 (43.3%)
Other 379 (8.0%)
88 (1.9%)
Death 37 (0.8%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

2,187 (43.6%)
Other 1,928 (38.5%)
Required Intervention 317 (6.3%)
R 140 (2.8%)
Hospitalization 119 (2.4%)
O 76 (1.5%)
Disability 74 (1.5%)
S 53 (1.1%)
Life Threatening 46 (0.9%)
Death 36 (0.7%)
L 17 (0.3%)
H 11 (0.2%)
Congenital Anomaly 4 (0.1%)
Invalid Data 1 (0.0%)
N 1 (0.0%)
Not Applicable 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Detachment of Device or Device Component 1,400
Insufficient Device Problem Information 654
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 435
Improper or Incorrect Procedure or Method 429
Use of Device Problem 406
Unknown (for use when the device problem is not known) 297
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 146
Overheating of Device 59
Other (for use when an appropriate device code cannot be identified) 51
Fire 50
Magnetic interference 49
Device Handling Problem 44
Temperature Problem 41
Thermal Decomposition of Device 38
Patient-Device Incompatibility 37
Break 32
Electromagnetic Interference 32
Smoking 32
Patient Device Interaction Problem 31
Device Emits Odor 29

Yearly Trend

92
1992: 2
93
1993: 2
94
1994: 5
95
1995: 12
96
1996: 22
97
1997: 37
98
1998: 27
99
1999: 18
00
2000: 31
01
2001: 40
02
2002: 55
03
2003: 46
04
2004: 43
05
2005: 81
06
2006: 83
07
2007: 114
08
2008: 167
09
2009: 194
10
2010: 165
11
2011: 182
12
2012: 170
13
2013: 107
14
2014: 119
15
2015: 113
16
2016: 135
17
2017: 121
18
2018: 158
19
2019: 158
20
2020: 98
21
2021: 84
22
2022: 138
23
2023: 159
24
2024: 281
25
2025: 1,279
26
2026: 267

Reports rose to 1,279 in 2025, up from an average of 220 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Top Manufacturers

PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS NEDERLAND B.V. 521
PHILIPS HEALTHCARE 358
PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS 255
UNK 111

Event Locations

3,470 (73.6%)
I 514 (10.9%)
HOSPITAL 374 (7.9%)
NO INFORMATION 190 (4.0%)
OUTPATIENT DIAGNOSTIC FACILITY 70 (1.5%)
INVALID DATA 49 (1.0%)
UNKNOWN 25 (0.5%)
OUTPATIENT TREATMENT FACILITY 9 (0.2%)
OTHER 7 (0.1%)
AMBULATORY SURGICAL FACILITY 1 (0.0%)
HOME 1 (0.0%)
IMAGING CENTER - STATIONARY 1 (0.0%)
MRI CENTERS 1 (0.0%)
RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT 1 (0.0%)

Compare PHILIPS MEDICAL SYSTEMS NEDERLAND B.V. vs PHILIPS HEALTHCARE →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (4,713 here).

Apparatus 4,706 Closed Antineoplastic And Hazardous Drug Re… 4,732 Staple, Removable 4,743 Ventilator, Emergency, Powered 4,749

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (37 here), distinct from the volume row.

System, Photopheresis, Extracorporeal 37 Arthroscope 36 Compressor, Air, Portable 36 Dura Substitute 36

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for System, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.