A year ago, McLaren Greater Lansing invested $700,000 to purchase an Ion Robotic Bronchoscopy , a platform for minimally invasive peripheral lung biopsy. “Ion provides us with the ability to biopsy any nodule anywhere in the lung, and it allows us to also stage the patient at the same time with an endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) procedure,” Dr. Daniel Kurtz , MD, FCCP, a pulmonologist who works at McLaren Greater Lansing. The new system allows the doctor to do a biopsy of hard-to-reach lung nodules that...