Philips investigated this complaint and found that the issue is caused by a communication problem between the software (acontis datalink driver vxworks) and the hardware (intel 82573l gigabit ethernet controller) of the geometry industrial pc.This causes a power on self test error of the geometry, and as a consequence geometry movements and positions not being available.The observation that the images are rotated 90 degrees is correct, because of the absence of the geometry positions the image cannot be corrected for the geometry orientation.The customer did not allege that the death of the patient was caused by the philips cathlab a solution for this issue is available and will be implemented.(b)(4).
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