FDA-cleared profile

SwiftMR

AIRS Medical Inc.

Accept, enhance, and transfer all-body MR images in DICOM format using noise reduction and image sharpening; it is not intended for mobile devices.

Evidence status: each field states its source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established, and vendor documentation pending remain distinct outcomes.

Clinical details

What this tool is for

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Exact purpose
Accept, enhance, and transfer all-body MR images in DICOM format using noise reduction and image sharpening; it is not intended for mobile devices.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09
Intended users
Radiology technologists; system administrators control automation and settings, and professional users retrieve and monitor results.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09
Care setting and population
Imaging center, clinic, or hospital.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09
Workflow role
Automatic background post-processing, quality-check, and transfer workflow that is intended not to interrupt routine MR scanning; users monitor status and retrieve enhanced studies.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09
Required input
DICOM MR images from all body parts. The validation conditions covered MRI field strengths 0.25T, 0.6T, 1.5T, and 3.0T and T1, T2, T2*, FLAIR, PD, DWI, and MRA protocols across multiple manufacturers.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Output and human action
Enhanced DICOM MR images with reduced noise and increased sharpness; denoising level 0-8 and sharpening level 0-5 are described. Enhanced images can be transferred to PACS or an MR device and coexist with original images.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
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Limitations
The software is not intended for mobile devices and processes DICOM MR images only. The FDA validation used image-quality acceptance criteria rather than disease-detection endpoints: SNR increase thresholds for noise reduction and FWHM-decrease thresholds for sharpening, each required for at least 90% of the applicable dataset.
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

The FDA listing establishes the regulatory identity. It does not by itself establish local workflow fit, pricing, security, or performance in your environment.

FDA submission
K230854
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
MRI
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-09-09
Anatomy
All body parts, including the body, cardiac, neuro, and musculoskeletal regions represented in validation.
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  • Exact FDA submission
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Clearance type
510(k)
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  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2023-10-27
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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

Questions for IT, informatics, and operations

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Integration
The described automation receives MR DICOM images from PACS or an MRI system, processes them in the background through a server/database workflow, and transfers enhanced DICOM images to PACS or the MR device. Specific interface versions, routing behavior, hosting model, and universal PACS/RIS/EHR compatibility are not established.
  • FDA source
  • Exact FDA submission
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Deployment and data flow
On-premise
  • Public source
  • Exact FDA submission
  • Checked 2026-08-13

Deployment category preserved from the prior exact-submission review; hosting region, data flow, and current commercial configuration still require vendor confirmation.

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
  • Vendor confirmation
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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
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  • Checked 2026-09-09

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

Input or output interoperability

DICOM is explicitly referenced in the described input, output, or workflow.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

The model card does not establish every supported DICOM object, transfer method, or local interface.

Supported acquisition environment

Supported hardware: Unspecified. Scanner manufacturers: Unspecified

exact submission · checked 2026-09-01

Confirm currently supported software versions, protocols, and site-specific acquisition configurations.

ACR exact-submission catalog context

ACR AI Central provides an exact-submission model card for SwiftMR; FDA labeling remains controlling for clinical use, limitations, and performance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-09

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
FDA K230854 reports unit, integration/system, and retrospective clinical-image validation testing; all predetermined criteria were reported as passed. Noise-reduction acceptance required SNR increase of at least 40% for at least 90% of the dataset at level 1, with 1% incremental increases per level. Sharpening acceptance required FWHM reduction of 0.13% for the deep-learning model or 0.43%, 1.7%, 2.3%, 3.6%, or 4.5% for filter levels 1-5, each for at least 90% of the dataset. Validation covered six manufacturers, 0.25T-3.0T field strengths, multiple body regions and protocols, adults and pediatric subjects, and reduced-scan-time images up to 50%. No FDA sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic AUC, or reader-study endpoint is established.
  • FDA source
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Reported sensitivity
Research pending
  • Needs research
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This field has not been curated yet.

Reported specificity
Research pending
  • Needs research
  • Exact FDA submission
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This field has not been curated yet.

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

SwiftMR regulatory performance study summary

  • DesignReader Study
  • PopulationAdult and Pediatric
  • Scopeexact submission
  • Tested version3
  • IndependenceIndependence not established

K230854

ACR AI Central summarizes the regulatory study; consult the exact FDA materials before comparative use.

Costs and setup

Budget and ongoing governance

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

No public price or quote for the exact K230854 configuration was established in this review.

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

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 K230854. 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.
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Buyer worksheet

Open questions to take to the vendor

Open evaluation checklist

Research record

What has been checked

This audit distinguishes completed source review from fields that have not yet been researched.

Exact FDA record reviewedStatus
2026-09-09Last searched
22Fields reviewed
9Source classes checked
3Awaiting review PubMed leads
0Awaiting review trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Exact-submission ACR model-card fields were normalized under the current provenance rules; vendor and independent-study confirmation remain distinct. Exact FDA scope controls clinical claims. ACR provides bounded exact-submission catalog context. Candidate literature metadata remains a discovery queue until full-text identity, endpoint, population, and version review is completed. Automated exact-name discovery found 3 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, acr ai central product, 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 K230854: SwiftMR

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Published 2023-10-27 - Accessed 2026-09-09

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

  2. Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Accessed 2026-08-31

    Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext

  3. SwiftMR model card (K230854)

    American College of Radiology - Published 2026-06-26 - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: intendedUsers, careSetting, output, limitations, evidenceSummary, integration, anatomy, evidenceStudies, implementationCapabilities

  4. PubMed biomedical literature index

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery

  5. ClinicalTrials.gov study registry

    U.S. National Library of Medicine - Accessed 2026-09-01

    Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus

  6. openFDA Device Recall API

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

    Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching

  7. openFDA exact recall query for K230854

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

    Scope: postmarketSafety

Research history

  1. K230854 FDA decision

    Regulatory record

    510(k)

  2. Source-review record updated

    Research record

    fda record reviewed

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