(214 days)
K163687 OLINDA/EXM v. 2.0
No
The description focuses on traditional dosimetry calculations based on Monte Carlo methods and time-activity curve integration, without mentioning AI or ML.
No
The device is a software package for calculating internal radiation doses, not for treating conditions.
No
QDOSE is a software package that estimates radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues from administered radiopharmaceuticals. It calculates total-body effective dose, but it does not make a diagnosis.
Yes
The device description explicitly states that QDOSE® is a "software package for calculating internal radiation doses". The description focuses entirely on the software's functionality, data processing, and calculation methods, without mentioning any associated hardware components that are part of the medical device itself. While it uses data from imaging modalities, the device itself is the software performing the calculations.
Based on the provided information, this device is not an IVD (In Vitro Diagnostic).
Here's why:
- Intended Use: The intended use clearly states that QDOSE® is used to estimate radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues of the body from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals. This involves analyzing data derived from imaging modalities applied to the patient's body.
- Device Description: The description reinforces this by explaining that it calculates internal radiation doses from clinically administered radiopharmaceuticals and uses patient time-activity data from nuclear medicine clinical imaging.
- Nature of IVDs: In vitro diagnostics are tests performed on samples taken from the human body, such as blood, urine, or tissue, outside of the body. They are used to detect diseases, conditions, or infections.
QDOSE® is a software tool for internal dosimetry, which is a process of calculating the radiation dose received by organs and tissues within the body based on the distribution and kinetics of a radioactive substance administered to the patient. This is distinct from in vitro testing.
N/A
Intended Use / Indications for Use
QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel Dosimetry is indicated for use to provide estimates of radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues of the body from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals, and to calculate total-body effective dose. Radiation absorbed dose calculations are based on clinical measurements of radioactivity biodistributions and biokinetics. QDOSE® is intended for applications in clinical nuclear medicine, molecular radiotherapy, radiation safety evaluations, risk assessment, record-keeping, and regulatory compliance. QDOSE® is indicated for use by professionals (medical physicists, radiologists and oncologists including nuclear medicine physicians), radiologic imaging technologists, health physicists and radiation safety officers and administrators, students in training, and others having interest in ability to calculate internal radiation doses from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals.
Product codes
IYX
Device Description
QDOSE® is a software package for calculating internal radiation doses from clinically administered radiopharmaceuticals. Patient time-activity data may be imported to QDOSE® in DICOM files from nuclear medicine clinical imaging. Dosimetry performed within QDOSE® is based on the use of calculated S values, determined for patient-like phantoms using a Monte Carlo method.
Mentions image processing
QDOSE® is a software tool for medical internal radiation dosimetry, the assessment and calculation of absorbed dose per unit administered activity due to radionuclides or radiopharmaceuticals in the body. Radiopharmaceuticals are employed for medical diagnostic exams or (cancer) therapy applications. Acquired nuclear medicine images from the patient, such as planar scintigraphy, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET), may be processed using QDOSE® to visualize and quantify the distribution of a radionuclide or radiopharmaceutical in the organs or tissues of a patient. The QDOSE® software processes these nuclear medicine imaging data, together with anatomical images from X-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to determine the total number of radioactive decays and emissions in organs and tissues of the body, and hence the radiation energy imparted. The software device includes all processing and calculation steps required for an internal dosimetry evaluation.
Mentions AI, DNN, or ML
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Input Imaging Modality
planar scintigraphy, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), X-ray computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Anatomical Site
organs and tissues of the body
Indicated Patient Age Range
infants, children, adolescents, adult male and female
Intended User / Care Setting
Professionals (medical physicists, radiologists and oncologists including nuclear medicine physicians), radiologic imaging technologists, health physicists and radiation safety officers and administrators, students in training, and others having interest in ability to calculate internal radiation doses from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals.
Description of the training set, sample size, data source, and annotation protocol
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Description of the test set, sample size, data source, and annotation protocol
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Summary of Performance Studies (study type, sample size, AUC, MRMC, standalone performance, key results)
Nonclinical testing by the applicant:
- Purpose: To assess the performance of QDOSE® version 1.1 and version 1.2 (including bug fix releases) in estimating dose values using phantom data and to show correct calculation of cumulated activity values. Also, to compare dose calculation results against other state-of-the-art internal dosimetry software packages.
- Methodology:
- Tests were performed to compare QDOSE® features, capabilities, and calculational results against those of Hermes Voxel Dosimetry with OLINDA/EXM® (version 1.1).
- Comparison of calculated dose values from IDAC-Dose 1 and IDAC-Dose 2.1 with those from OLINDA/EXM 1.1 and OLINDA/EXM 2.0 using similar assumptions.
- Steps involved in performance testing and data analysis for calculating time-integrated activity coefficients (critical input values for both IDAC-Dose 2.1 and OLINDA/EXM 2.0):
- Import of nuclear medicine scans (image data).
- Automatic 2D co-registration of all image timepoints to the first timepoint.
- Definition of the region-of-interest (ROI).
- Segmentation of all pixels within the ROI.
- Automatic 3D co-registration of all 3D image timepoints.
- Definition of volume of interest (VOI).
- Segmentation of all voxels within the VOI.
- Monoexponential curve fitting by least-squares regression analysis.
- Integration of the monoexponential time-activity function to yield the activity coefficients.
- Key Results:
- Time-integrated cumulated activities for source organs:
- For planar workflow: average deviation/difference of measured effective half-lives for activities in selected source organs (QDOSE® vs. Hermes Voxel Dosimetry) was about 0.2%. Average difference of calculated activities was about 1.3%.
- For hybrid workflow: deviation of cumulated activities was about 0.3%.
- For volumetric workflow: deviation of cumulated activities was 0.04%.
- Overall, these outcomes indicated similar test results.
- Organ absorbed dose (IDAC-Dose 2.1 vs. OLINDA/EXM 2.0):
- Mean relative difference for all beta/gamma-emitting radionuclides (pooled data): 7% for adult male phantom and 8.8% for adult female phantom.
- Mean relative differences for alpha emitting nuclides: 10.7% for adult male phantom and 11.6% for adult female phantom.
- Relative differences by individual organ for a given radionuclide (QDOSE®/IDAC-Dose 2.1 vs. Hermes Voxel Dosimetry with OLINDA/EXM) varied from about 1% (kidneys, liver, spleen, thyroid) to about 25% (red marrow). These differences reflect assumed differences in anatomical geometry, mass, shape, position, and tissue composition.
- Comparison of absorbed dose values using the spherical module showed agreement with less than 5% difference.
- Absorbed doses calculated by the Voxel S method in QDOSE® showed a mean difference relative to OLINDA/EXM of about 6%.
- Time-integrated cumulated activities for source organs:
Nonclinical tests conducted by others:
- Study Type: Nonclinical intercomparison tests by Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging.
- Key Results: Absorbed dose estimates obtained using IDAC-DOSE 2.1 compared favorably with OLINDA 1 and 2, ICRP Publication 128, and MIRDcalc 1. The observed variability in reported doses was generally small, and for organ walls with contents, all results were within ±20% and within the standard error usually assumed for medical internal radiation dose estimates.
Clinical Tests Submitted, Referenced, or Relied on:
- Study Type: Clinical Evaluation Report for QDOSE® dated February 1, 2022.
- Purpose: Assessed the performance and safety of QDOSE® for medical internal radiation dosimetry to facilitate calculations of radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues.
- Methodology: The report describes the intended purpose and use of QDOSE® software, including its ability to display multimodal medical image data (CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, planar NM images), perform measurements, co-register image datasets, define ROI/VOI, perform fits of measurement data to mathematical functions, construct time-activity curves, and calculate cumulated activities for major source organs. These cumulated activity values are then used to calculate absorbed doses per unit administered radionuclide activity based on deterministic models.
Key Metrics (Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, NPV, etc.)
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Predicate Device(s)
K163687 OLINDA/EXM v. 2.0
Reference Device(s)
K191216 Hermes Voxel Dosimetry™, K182966 PLANET® Onco Dose with PLANET® Dose, K182624 SurePlan™-MRT Dosimetry
Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) - All Relevant Information
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§ 892.1100 Scintillation (gamma) camera.
(a)
Identification. A scintillation (gamma) camera is a device intended to image the distribution of radionuclides in the body by means of a photon radiation detector. This generic type of device may include signal analysis and display equipment, patient and equipment supports, radionuclide anatomical markers, component parts, and accessories.(b)
Classification. Class I (general controls).
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August 28, 2023
Versant Medical Physics and Radiation Safety Darrell R. Fisher, Ph.D. Nuclear Medicine Physicist, Regulatory Division 119 N. Church Street Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
Re: K230221
Trade/Device Name: QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel Dosimetry (Personalized Dosimetry in Molecular Radiotherapy) Regulation Number: 21 CFR 892.1100 Regulation Name: Scintillation (gamma) camera Regulatory Class: Class I Product Code: IYX Dated: July 12, 2023 Received: July 25, 2023
Dear Darrell Fisher:
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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Enclosure
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Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known)
Device Name
QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel Dosimetry (Personalized Dosimetry in Molecular Radiotherapy)
Indications for Use (Describe)
QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel Dosimetry is indicated for use to provide estimates of radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues of the body from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals, and to calculate total-body effective dose. Radiation absorbed dose calculations are based on clinical measurements of radioactivity biodistributions and biokinetics. QDOSE® is intended for applications in clinical nuclear medicinerapy, radiation safety evaluations, risk assessment, record-keeping, and regulatory compliance. QDOSE® is indicated for use by professionals (medical physicists, radiologists and oncologists including nuclear medicine physicians), radiologists, health physicists and radiation safety officers and administrators, students in training, and others having interest in ability to calculate internal radiation doses from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals.
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510(k) Summary
QDOSE® is a software tool for medical internal radiation dosimetry, the assessment and calculation of absorbed dose per unit administered activity due to radionuclides or radiopharmaceuticals in the body. Radiopharmaceuticals are employed for medical diagnostic exams or (cancer) therapy applications. Acquired nuclear medicine images from the patient, such as planar scintigraphy, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET), may be processed using QDOSE® to visualize and quantify the distribution of a radionuclide or radiopharmaceutical in the organs or tissues of a patient. The QDOSE® software processes these nuclear medicine imaging data, together with anatomical images from X-ray computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to determine the total number of radioactive decays and emissions in organs and tissues of the body, and hence the radiation energy imparted. The software device includes all processing and calculation steps required for an internal dosimetry evaluation.
(a) The Submitter (Applicant)
Name: Versant Medical Physics and Radiation Safety 119 N. Church Street, Suite 201 Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Applicant Contact: Darrell R. Fisher Telephone: (509) 539-3223 E-mail: darrell.fisher@versantphysics.com
Correspondent: Versant Medical Physics and Radiation Safety Correspondent Contact: Darrell R. Fisher Telephone: (509) 539-3223 E-mail: darrell.fisher@versantphysics.com
(b) Name of the Medical Device
QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel Dosimetry (Personalized Dosimetry in Molecular Radiotherapy)
QDOSE® is a registered trademark of ABX-CRO Advanced Pharmaceutical Services, Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., in Australia, Japan, the United States, and Europe.
Regulation Number: 21 CFR §892.1100 Regulation Name: Scintillation (Gamma) Camera Regulatory Class: Class 1 Classification Product Code: IYX
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(c) The Predicate Device [21 CFR 807.92(a)(3)]
The following predicate device is identified as legally marketed in the United States as medical device software to which the applicant (Versant Medical Physics and Radiation Safety, Kalamazoo, Michigan) claims substantial equivalence through the 510(k) premarket notification process [21 CFR 807.92(a)(3)]:
K163687 OLINDA/EXM v. 2.0 Hermes Medical Solutions AB Regulation Number 21 CFR 892.1100 Regulation Name: Scintillation (Gamma) Camera Regulatory Class: Class I Product Code: IYX
The predicate device OLINDA/EXM (2.0) is a software package for calculating radiation doses from clinically administered radiopharmaceuticals. Dosimetry is based on the use of calculated S values, determined for patient-like phantoms using a Monte Carlo method. The S values are equal to the average absorbed dose to a target organ generated by a unit of activity in a source organ. OLINDA/EXM dose calculations are performed by multiplying a source organ timeactivity curve integral by the S value. Source-organ time-activity curves are determined from quantitative nuclear medicine imaging data, which when integrated yield an estimate of the number of radionuclide decays area-under-curve or time-integrated activity coefficient.
(d) Comparison of the Device Indications for Use
Both QDOSE® and OLINDA/EXM implement the MIRD dosimetry schema recommended by the Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and therefore generate closely similar dosimetry results.
| Device Name | K230221 QDOSE® Multi-purpose
Voxel Dosimetry | K163687 OLINDA/EXM v.2.0
(predicate) |
|---------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Indications for Use | QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel
Dosimetry is indicated for use to
provide estimates of radiation
absorbed dose to organs and tissues of
the body from medically administered
radiopharmaceuticals, and to calculate
total-body effective dose. Radiation
absorbed dose calculations are based
on clinical measurements of
radioactivity biodistributions and
biokinetics. QDOSE® is intended for | The intended use of
OLINDA/EXM is to provide
estimates (deterministic) of
absorbed radiation dose at the
whole organ level as a result of
administering any radionuclide
and to calculate effective
whole-body dose. This is
dependent on input data
regarding bio distribution being
supplied to the application. |
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| applications in clinical nuclear | |
|---|---|
| medicine, molecular radiotherapy, | |
| radiation safety evaluations, risk | |
| assessment, record-keeping, and | |
| regulatory compliance. QDOSE® is | |
| intended for use by professionals | |
| (medical physicists, radiologists and | |
| oncologists including nuclear medicine | |
| physicians), radiologic imaging | |
| technologists, health physicists and | |
| radiation safety officers and | |
| administrators, students in training, | |
| and others having interest in ability to | |
| calculate internal radiation doses from | |
| medically administered | |
| radiopharmaceuticals. |
Comparative analysis: Both the applicant software device and the predicate device perform similar calculations, resulting in estimates of organ or tissue absorbed dose and total-body effective dose. Both the applicant device and the predicate device are used for calculating radiation doses from administered radiopharmaceuticals. Both the applicant device and the predicate device are intended for use by similar classes of persons who typically perform internal dose calculations. Both the applicant device and the predicate device perform dose calculations based on the Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) schema using similar anthropomorphic models, similar radionuclide data bases, and for similar listings of body organs and tissues. Both the applicant device and the predicate device produce similar and comparable estimates of calculated radiation absorbed dose (Della Gala G., Bardiès M., Tipping J, and Strigari L, Overview of commercial treatment planning systems for target radionuclide therapy, Physica Medica 92:52-61; 2021). Intended applications in clinical nuclear medicine are similar. Therefore, differences between the applicant software device and the named predicate device are not critical to the use of the device, and the differences do not affect the safety and effectiveness of the device when used as labeled.
(e) Summary Comparison of Device Technological Characteristics
The following side-by-side comparison of the applicant software device and the predicate software device shows substantial similarities in technical basis and specifications.
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| | K230221 QDOSE® Multi-purpose | K163687 OLINDA/EXM v.2.0
(predicate) |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| | Voxel Dosimetry | |
| Purpose | Calculate the radiation absorbed doses to
various organs and tissues from medically
administered radiopharmaceuticals | Calculate the radiation absorbed doses to
various organs and tissues from medically
administered radiopharmaceuticals |
| Source of data
input | Clinical nuclear medicine diagnostic
imaging | Clinical nuclear medicine diagnostic
imaging |
| Graphical user
interface | Direct import and processing of region-of
interest image and activity data | Direct import and processing of region-of
interest image and activity data |
| Computational
formalism | Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD)
mathematical schema with complete
ICRP computational framework | Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD)
mathematical schema |
| Time-dependent
measurement
data processing | Time-activity data analysis for curve-
fitting, functional form definition, best-fit
parameter analysis, and integration
through complete disappearance | Time-activity data analysis for curve-
fitting, functional form definition, best-fit
parameter analysis, and integration
through complete disappearance |
| Form of dose-
calculation input
data | Organ and tissue residence times (time-
integrated activity coefficients) for
specified source organs | Organ and tissue residence times (time-
integrated activity coefficients) for
specified source organs |
| Anatomical
models | ICRP representative human phantom
models for infants, children and
adolescents (pediatric), and the adult
male and female; ICRP Publications 110
(2009), 133 (2016), and 143 (2020). | RADAR Inc. representative human
phantom models for infants, children and
adolescents (pediatric), adult male and
female, and pregnant female |
| Source and target
organ models | 83 different source regions irradiating 47
target tissues compatible with ICRP
Publication 89 (2002) for listed adult
anatomical phantoms | 28 different source regions irradiating 28
target tissues compatible with ICRP
Publication 89 (2002) for listed adult
anatomical phantoms |
| S value database | Derived from the Radiation Dose
Assessment Resource (RADAR) phantom
series | Uses S values from the ICRP publication
110 adult reference phantoms for dose
computation; derived from the ICRP
publication 133 specific absorbed
fractions |
| Radionuclide
library and
nuclear emissions
database | Expansive list of available and optional
radionuclides (up to 1252) to choose
from based on ICRP Publication 107
(2008) and MIRD/Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (2008) radionuclide database
with comprehensive nuclear emission
energies, decay products, and yields per
decay for each listed radioisotope | Expansive list of available and optional
radionuclides (up to 850) to choose from
(Brookhaven National Laboratory nuclear
database) with comprehensive nuclear
emission energies, decay products, and
yields per decay for each listed
radioisotope |
| Radionuclide
emission types
and proportios | Photons (gamma and x-ray), beta
particles (electrons and positrons), alpha
particles | Photons (gamma and x-ray), beta
particles (electrons and positrons), alpha
particles |
| Method for
calculating
specific absorbed
fractions | Monte Carlo simulations for photons, and
direct calculations for electrons and alpha
particles | Monte Carlo simulations for photons, and
direct calculations for electrons and alpha
particles |
| Results of
calculations | Organ absorbed dose per unit
administered activity, and total body
effective dose | Organ absorbed dose per unit
administered activity, and total body
effective dose |
| Tumor model
simulations | Size-dependent spheres model with
definable tissue density | Size-dependent spheres model |
| Archiving | Export of dose-calculation results to file
database | Export of dose-calculation results to file
database |
Substantial Equivalency Comparison
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(f) Reference Devices Used to Help Support a Substantial Equivalence Determination
User testing has involved the applicant's software device, the predicate device, and the following reference devices:
K191216 Hermes Voxel Dosimetry™ (Hermes Medical Solutions AB, Stockholm, Sweden),
K182966 PLANET® Onco Dose with PLANET® Dose (DOSIsoft SA, Paris, France)
K182624 SurePlan™-MRT Dosimetry (MIM Software Inc., Cleveland, Ohio) The reference software devices typically process, reconstruct, and extract quantitative count data from medical images (planar diagnostics, positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography, computed axial x-ray tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, etc.), perform image registration and segmentation, translate detected counts to radionuclide activity present in organs and tissue of the body using calibration standards, integrate total counts over serially obtained regions of interest, and calculate radiation absorbed doses to the major organs and tissues of the body.
(g) Description of the Device that is the Subject of this Premarket Notification Submission
QDOSE® is a software package for calculating internal radiation doses from clinically administered radiopharmaceuticals. Patient time-activity data may be imported to QDOSE® in DICOM files from nuclear medicine clinical imaging. Dosimetry performed within QDOSE® is based on the use of calculated S values, determined for patient-like phantoms using a Monte Carlo method. The S values provide the average absorbed dose to a target organ generated by a unit of activity in a source organ time-activity curves from quantitative nuclear medicine imaging data are integrated to yield an estimate of the number of radionuclide decays representing the area under a time-activity function, similarly to the mathematical process used by OLINDA/EXM. QDOSE® dose calculations are performed by multiplying a source organ timeactivity curve integral by the S value generated from Monte Carlo calculations. The product of
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the dose calculations is an output of radiation absorbed doses to specified target organs per unit administered activity.
Why is this device important for radiopharmaceutical dosimetry? The effects of radiation on living tissues are primarily dependent on the well-established measure "absorbed dose". Diagnostic and therapeutic administrations of radiopharmaceuticals should be both planned and verified; consequently "great efforts are needed to assess absorbed dose in cells, tissues, and organs as a prerequisite for treatment planning and for verification of absorbed doses" to human subjects (Lassmann M and Eberlein U, The relevance of dosimetry in precision medicine, J Nucl Med 59:1494-1499; 2018). The QDOSE® solution for personalized dosimetry provides an important capability for evaluating radiation absorbed doses from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals. The following subsections provide further descriptive information.
(1) QDOSE® product overview: QDOSE® calculates radiation absorbed doses to organs and tissues of the human body after medical administration of radiopharmaceutical products (as described on FDA form 3881). QDOSE® has applications in clinical nuclear medicine, molecular radiotherapy, radiation safety evaluations, risk assessment, record-keeping, and regulatory compliance. QDOSE® integrates all dosimetry steps from image data import and processing to analysis and reporting. QDOSE® features a comprehensive range of workflows, running in parallel, including planar (2D), hybrid (2.5D) and volumetric (3D) dosimetry, as well as a dedicated selective internal radiation therapy (yttrium-90-SIRT) dosimetry module.
(2) Input Data: Nuclear medicine images such as planar scintigraphy, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET) may be acquired to visualize the biodistribution of a radiopharmaceutical in a medical patient. The QDOSE® software is used to process these nuclear medicine image data as well as anatomical images like x-ray computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The software includes all processing and calculation steps required for an internal dosimetry evaluation.
QDOSE® can import image data in DICOM format from multiple medical scanners (planar scintigraphy, SPECT, PET, CT, MRI). The images can be displayed and further processed by coregistering image data sets and performing segmentations on the image data for an organ or a lesion. The segmented regions or volumes of interest (ROI, VOI) are used to calculate the activity from nuclear medicine image data sets (planar scintigraphy, SPECT, PET) within the ROI/VOI using well-characterized radionuclide standards. In case multiple nuclear medicine data sets for different time points are available, the activity within a segmented region for the different time points can be displayed as time-activity curve. An exponential curve can be fitted to the time-activity curve. The area under the curve can then be calculated (which represents the cumulated activity).
(3) Internal Calculational Algorithm: The dosimetry of an administered radiopharmaceutical to the segmented organ or other organs can be calculated using QDOSE® QDOSE® software incorporates a calculational engine module (IDAC-Dose2.1) that performs
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dose calculations based on the measured cumulated activity for a segmented region. A phantom-based approach is used to calculate the doses for different organs and tissues based on the cumulated activity from one or more segmented organs. For tumors with an assigned volume, the dose based on the cumulated activity for that tissue may be estimated using a spherical model. For 3D image data sets, the dose statistics and the voxel-wise distribution of dose values within the segmented organ based on the cumulated activity from the segmented organ can also be calculated using a voxel-based approach.
(4) QDOSE® Process Workflows: The QDOSE® software product includes algorithms for automatic co-registration of different planar scintigraphy images and automatic 3D coregistration between CT or MR image data sets and between CT and SPECT/PET image data sets. QDOSE® software includes algorithms for automatic and semi-automatic segmentation of certain organs (such as liver, kidneys, and spleen) on CT images.
Process workflows in QDOSE® include two-dimensional and three-dimensional image coregistration, region-of-interest and volume-of-interest drawing and segmentation, curve fitting and function integration for time-activity curve determinations, and calculation of radiation absorbed dose to selected organs and tissues of the body. QDOSE® implements the medical internal radiation dosimetry (MIRD) schema recommended by the MIRD Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medical Imaging. The software package incorporates the IDAC-Dose (version 2.1) calculation software (Andersson L, Eckerman K, et al., IDAC-Dose 2.1, an internal dosimetry program for diagnostic nuclear medicine based on the ICRP adult reference voxel phantoms, Europ J Nucl Medical Imag Res 7, 88; 2017; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-017-0339-3), which is used by the International Commission on Radiological Protection to generate radiation dose estimates given in ICRP Publication 110 (Adult Reference Computational Phantoms; 2010), and in ICRP Publication 133 (The ICRP computational framework for internal dose assessment for reference adults: specific absorbed fractions; 2016). QDOSE® software can be installed on most regular Windows® computer systems, and can import DICOM images from most computerized imaging modalities.
QDOSE® with IDAC-Dose 2.1 fully implements the MIRD schema, stylized models, and computational processes adopted for scientific recommendations by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).
QDOSE® builds on the JADA workflow interface developed by Professor Anna Celler, University of British Columbia, Canada, and uses the algorithm for automatic liver segmentation (AIT-Liverator) developed by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. Manufacturer (ABX-CRO) is licensed by the University of British Columbia and The Austrian Institute of Technology, and owns all rights to use and incorporate the segmentation algorithms, workflows, and interfaces in the QDOSE® dosimetry suite.
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(h) Statement of Intended Use of the Device that is the Subject of this Premarket Notification Submission
(1) Indications for Use: QDOSE® Multi-purpose Voxel Dosimetry is indicated for use to provide estimates of radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues of the body from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals, and to calculate total-body effective dose. Radiation absorbed dose calculations are based on clinical measurements of radioactivity biodistributions and biokinetics. QDOSE® is intended for applications in clinical nuclear medicine, molecular radiotherapy, radiation safety evaluations, risk assessment, record-keeping, and regulatory compliance. QDOSE® is indicated for use by professionals (medical physicists, radiologists and oncologists including nuclear medicine physicians), radiologic imaging technologists, health physicists and radiation safety officers and administrators, students in training, and others having interest in ability to calculate internal radiation doses from medically administered radiopharmaceuticals.
(2) Patient population for which the device is intended: Subjects typically include medical patients administered radioactive drugs for diagnostic or therapeutic applications, and research subjects entered into approved clinical trials involving radioactive drugs and radioimmunotherapy agents common to molecular nuclear medicine.
(3) Technological similarities between QDOSE® and the predicate device: QDOSE® and the predicate device enable personalized dosimetry in clinical practice by calculating radiation absorbed doses per unit administered radionuclide activity (mGy/MBq or cGy/mCi). Differences in computer programming code, algorithm development, implementation of image registration techniques, choice and use of stylized and personalized models, derivation of specific absorbed fractions, and integration of serial data plots normally differ slightly from one dosimetry software product to another; however constants such as the basic physics equations underpinning absorbed dose calculations and nuclear data applied remain constant and standardized between platforms-resulting in similar dosimetry results. Therefore, minor differences in embedded methodology are normal and not critical to the intended experimental, diagnostic, or therapeutic use of the device. With the QDOSE® software (as with the predicate device), it is common and not unusual for users to obtain slightly different numerical results in terms of absolute absorbed dose values; the main sources of difference are ostensibly level of user training and experience, calibration, reproducibility, and region of interest delineation, which are all factors involving professional judgement (Lassmann and Eberlein, op.cit.; 2018). QDOSE® and the named predicate device provide users with the capability for patient-specific internal dosimetry based on fundamental science principles and internationally accepted methods and phantom models. Hence, differences between software coding do not significantly affect the safety or effectiveness of the device when used as labeled and according to user guidance.
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(i) Substantial Equivalence Assessments of Performance Data
This submission demonstrates conformation with predicate software systems, as has been evaluated in performance testing and internal dosimetry intercomparison studies. The FDA has approved predicate devices for medical internal radiation dosimetry. The following information summarizes ways in which the performance of the applicant's QDOSE® software compares to performance of the three, legally marketed predicate devices, named above.
(1) Purpose and use: The purpose and use of each commercial software package for radiopharmaceutical internal dosimetry, based on quantitative data from nuclear medicine imaging, is to allow flexible dosimetry calculations for a broad range of radionuclides and radioactive drug products for patient dosimetry in nuclear medicine diagnostics and therapy. The software for each may be used with a spectrum of different imaging systems (cameras), manufacturers, detection sensitivities, image quality assurance, institutions, and technologists/operators. QDOSE® is broadly applicable to a range of medical procedures involving or including systemic internal radiation therapy (radiolabeled antibodies and other proteins), diagnostic radiopharmaceutical examinations, and selective internal radiation therapy of radionuclides administered directly into a target organ or tissue. For example, QDOSE® can be used to perform post-treatment dosimetry of systemic internal radiation therapy. In these applications, nuclear medicine image data (planar scintigraphy images and/or SPECT or PET) are obtained at multiple time points after administration of a radiopharmaceutical to a patient. Image data sets can be co-registered, and regions-of-interest (ROIs) or volumes of interest (VOIs) can be drawn, and segmentations can be performed. For each segmentation over multiple time points, different curve fit models can be used to calculate the cumulated activity. Based on the cumulated activities for the segmentations, the absorbed doses may be calculated. These software systems also calculate the radiation protection quantity effective dose.
(2) Methods of calculation: QDOSE® and the predicate software packages may incorporate uniquely different methods, assumptions, and algorithms for dosimetry of specific organs and tissues. For example, methods may differ slightly for calculating dose to walls of organs with non-tissue volumes (stomach, urinary bladder, small and large intestines, gall bladder, heart, and so forth) with activity presumed to reside in wall tissue, contents, or both. In addition, different approaches may be taken for calculating dose to organs and tissues with non-contiguous boundaries, such as trabecular and cortical bone, bone surfaces, and red and yellow (fatty) marrow. Special assumptions may be made concerning the geometry and morphology of organs such as lens of eye, medulla and cortex of kidneys, lung subdivisions, and other sub-organ regions.
(3) Software improvements, revisions, and upgrades: Software for internal dosimetry evolves continuously with upgrades and improvements, corrections and added features. Each dosimetry software product strives toward reliability and dependability, utility, ease of use, flexibility, feature capability, and applicability to clinical needs. QDOSE® and the predicate software packages provide upgrade and improvement mechanisms to ensure that the software
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remains current, and that problems, bugs, and other issues are dealt with in a timely manner, and that revisions are immediately available to the user community.
Developers typically benchmark new dosimetry software against earlier versions of their own software, against competing dosimetry software, and against methods, models, and calculational approaches described in the open scientific literature. As a result of specific differences in calculation method, it is not common for dosimetry software packages to provide identical numerical dosimetry results when compared one to another. For example, each of the three FDA-approved predicate software devices produces different numerical results for the same input parameters and assumptions; differences in calculated absorbed dose are usually relatively small or insignificant.
(j) Nonclinical Tests Submitted, Referenced, or Relied on in the Premarket Notification Submission for a Determination of Substantial Equivalence
Functionality evaluation and dosimetry intercomparison tests have been conducted (a) by the applicant, and (b) by others to determine the degree to which calculated radiation doses compare among the applicant's QDOSE® software and the three predicate devices named above in Section (3).
(1) Nonclinical testing by the applicant: QDOSE® comparative performance tests were conducted. The purpose of these tests was to assess the performance of QDOSE® version 1.1 and version 1.2 (including bug fix releases) in estimating dose values using phantom data. Tests were performed to show the correct calculation of the cumulated activity values for phantom datasets with defined image intensity values and time-activity curves. Further tests were performed by the applicant to show that the dose calculation results compare favorably to other, state-of-the-art internal dosimetry software packages.
The internal dose calculational engine in QDOSE® is IDAC-Dose version 2.1 (Andersson M, Johansson L, Eckerman K, and Mattsson S, IDAC-Dose 2.1, an internal dosimetry program for diagnostic nuclear medicine based on the ICRP adult reference voxel phantoms, Europ J Nucl Med Medical Imag Res 7:88; 2017). Applicant testing was performed to compare QDOSE® features, capabilities, and calculational results against those of Hermes Voxel Organ Dosimetry with OLINDA/EXM® (version 1.1). To evaluate the performance of QDOSE®, the calculated dose values from IDAC-Dose 1 and IDAC-Dose 2.1 were compared with the dose values obtained from OLINDA/EXM 1.1 and OLINDA/EXM 2.0 using similar assumptions².
11 Each software (medical device) is based on and developed from different approaches, assumptions, models, and calculational methods. However, absolute ground truth in medical internal radiation dosimetry is not known; for example, it is not determinable whether one software package or dosimetry module provides an exactly correct estimate, the best estimate, or even the better estimate of organ or tissue absorbed dose compared to any other software. Newer software usually incorporates newer, fresher, or up-to-date best available information, methods, models, and calculational algorithms. More modern algorithms gain strength with advancements in medical imaging and image interpretation. In general, it is desirable for an applicant's software to compare favorably with those of predicate devices; indeed, the more current approaches usually provide the better dose estimates.
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The steps involved in performance testing and data analysis for calculating time-integrated activity coefficients (critical input values for both IDAC-Dose 2.1 and OLINDA/EXM 2.0) include:
- Import of nuclear medicine scans (image data)
- Automatic 2D co-registration of all image timepoints to the first timepoint
- Definition of the region-of-interest (ROI)
- Segmentation of all pixels within the ROI
- Automatic 3D co-registration of all 3D image timepoints
- Definition of volume of interest (VOI)
- Segmentation of all voxels within the VOI
- Monoexponential curve fitting by least-squares regression analysis, and
- Integration of the monoexponential time-activity function to yield the activity coefficients (which represent the critical input values to the dosimetry modules in QDOSE® and Hermes Voxel Dosimetry with OLINDA/EXM).
- (a.1) Test results for calculating time-integrated cumulated activities for source organs:
Time-integrated cumulated activity values were calculated for planar workflow, the hybrid workflow, and the volumetric workflow, and were compared against theoretical values from calculations. Phantom datasets were analyzed by co-registration of images, segmentation, curve fitting, and activity integration. The derived cumulated activities for the different workflows were calculated and compared to the expected theoretical values.
For the planar image workflow, the average deviation or difference of the measured effective half-lives for activities in the selected source organs, comparing QDOSE® and Hermes Voxel Dosimetry, was about 0.2%, and the average difference of the calculated activities was about 1.3%. For the hybrid workflow, the deviation of the cumulated activities was about 0.3%, and for the volumetric workflow was 0.04%. Overall, these outcomes indicated similar test results.
(a.2) Test results for calculating orqan absorbed dose, comparing IDAC-Dose 2.1 to OLINDA/EXM 2.0:
Anthropomorphic phantoms used in QDOSE® (IDAC-Dose 2.1) and Hermes Voxel Dosimetry with OLINDA/EXM are slightly different, and therefore calculated absorbed doses per unit administered activity will be different but comparable. IDAC-Dose 2.1 uses the realistic voxelized phantom model, whereas OLINDA/EXM uses the traditional (older generation) stylized model.
For the radionuclides tested, the mean relative difference for all beta/gamma-emitting radionuclides (pooled data) was 7% for the adult male phantom and 8.8 % for adult female phantom. For alpha emitting nuclides, the mean relative differences were 10.7% for the adult male phantom and 11.6% for adult female phantom.
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For a given radionuclide, the relative differences by individual organ between QDOSE® (IDAC-Dose 2.1) and Hermes Voxel Dosimetry with OLINDA/EXM varied by about 1% for kidneys, liver, spleen, and thyroid, to about 25% for red marrow. These differences reflect the assumed differences in anatomical geometry, mass, shape, position, and tissue composition between the two software packages that affect calculation of specific absorbed energy fractions.
As with OLINDA/EXM, the dosimetry module in QDOSE® (IDAC-Dose 2.1) also calculates absorbed doses for radionuclides in the software library to unit-density spheres of various diameters. The comparison of absorbed dose values using the spherical module also showed agreement with less than 5% difference. Absorbed doses calculated by the Voxel S method in QDOSE® showed a mean difference relative to OLINDA/EXM of about 6%.
(2) Nonclinical tests conducted by others: Nonclinical intercomparison test have been performed by others, including the Medical Internal Radiation Dose (MIRD) Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging. In these nonclinical intercomparisons, absorbed dose estimates obtained using the dose calculational module in QDOSE® (IDAC-DOSE 2.1) compared favorably with OLINDA 1 and 2, ICRP Publication 128, and MIRDcalc 1.
The observed variability in reported doses was generally small, and in the case of organ walls with contents (with higher output dose variability), all results were still within ±20%. and within the standard error usually assumed for medical internal radiation dose estimates.
(k) Clinical Tests Submitted, Referenced, or Relied on in the Premarket Notification Submission for a Determination of Substantial Equivalence
Determination of substantial equivalence for internal dosimetry software devices is usually based on software purpose and objectives, scientific and technical approaches employed, and output results calculated. Our analysis according to these criteria showed that QDOSE® is substantially equivalent to the predicate device.
The manufacturer's Clinical Evaluation Report for QDOSE® dated February 1, 2022, is provided in this submission as APPENDIX B. This clinical evaluation assessed the performance and safety of QDOSE® for medical internal radiation dosimetry.
(1) Intended purpose and use: In common practice, the medical device QDOSE® software facilitates the calculations of radiation absorbed dose to organs and tissues of the body, for example, based on intracorporal administration of radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine and radiolabeled microspheres in oncology. QDOSE® is not specifically designed to be used for therapy planning. At a whole organ level, dose estimation is performed using deterministic phantom-based models; in single organs, a spherical model or the Voxel S model is applied. The input for QDOSE® comprises information based on patient quantitative imaging data that show time-dependent uptake and biodistribution of administered radionuclides, or
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time-activity curves or cumulated activities for radiopharmaceuticals in organs. QDOSE® allows the user to display multimodal medical image data limited to x-ray computed tomography (CT) data sets in axial slices, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data sets in axial slices, positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon- emission computed tomography (SPECT), and planar nuclear medicine images. QDOSE® enables the user to perform measurements based on the data sets. Tools are available in QDOSE® allowing co-registration of image data sets, defining regions or volumes of interest (ROI/VOI) in data sets, performing fits of measurement data to mathematical functions by least-squares regression analysis, constructing time-activity curves for the best-fit functions, and calculating cumulated activities for major source organs that are imageable above background. Cumulated activity values are then used to calculate absorbed doses per unit administered radionuclide activity, based on deterministic models on whole organ level, subregions, or single organs.
(I) Software Validation Quality Assurance (Quality Management System)
The manufacturer of the QDOSE® medical device software (ABX-CRO, Dresden, Germany) has implemented a software validation and quality assurance process, as required by the FDA Quality System regulation (21 CFR 820). These activities are documented by the manufacturer, to confirm by examination and evidence that the software specifications conform to user needs and designed uses ("General Principles of Software Validation," (January 2002); found at the URL: https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/generalprinciples-software-validation). The QDOSE® Software Quality Management Plan meets or exceeds the FDA's approach to validating a software system. Planning, verification, testing, traceability, configuration management, and many other aspects of good software engineering have been incorporated to support a conclusion that the software is validated. The software validation and verification activities continue throughout the entire software lifecycle.
(m) Safety and Performance
The differences QDOSE® and the predicate software devices named above do not raise new questions regarding safety and effectiveness of the device, as designed, is as safe and effective as are its predicate devices.
(n) Planning for Selective Internal Radiation Therapy
For microspheres, pre-treatment planning is conducted using FDA-approved methods in the labeling of yttrium-90 SIR-Spheres and TheraSpheres, respectively. Post-treatment dose verification is performed using 90 PET. FDA stipulates that dose verification using surrogate 99mTc-MAA cannot be used for prospective dosimetry or patient retreatment.
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(o) Conclusions
Based on comparisons of the Indications for Use, design, purpose, and functionality presented herein, the software package QDOSE® is substantially equivalent to the predicate device.
The medical device QDOSE® with dosimetry module IDAC-Dose 2.1 is a multi-purpose voxel dosimetry software package that allows the clinical user to perform quantitative nuclear medicine imaging studies using a variety of modalities. As with the predicate device, QDOSE® users may co-register multiple nuclear medicine image formats, plot time-versus-activity data and best-fit mathematical functions, and integrate the areas under curves for the major imageable source organs and the whole body to calculate time-integrated activity coefficients (formerly called residence times) as inputs to the dosimetry modules. The dosimetry modules may then calculate organ and tissue radiation absorbed doses (including cross-organ contributions) per unit activity administered to the patient. QDOSE® is a significantly useful tool for assessing radiation doses to patients for a broad range of radionuclides, radiopharmaceuticals, and radioimmunotherapy agents.
(o) 510(k) Summary Checklist [21 CFR 807.92]
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| (5) | Statement of intended use | V |
| (6) | Summary of technological characteristics | V |
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| (10) | Quality management system | V |