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can Biopsy be taken using this Camera/Xray method?

question 1- here is showing using a screen Monitor implanting a Stent in an artery -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMEZuU1EvE
,so is it using CT or XRAY to show the veins and stent being put in ?

question 2- Can this same type of Camera/video be used to take a Biopsy from a Lung Nodule , with a Biopsy needle and camera , or does this only show Veins and No nodules ??
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X-ray fluoroscopy referenced in the video is not used to biopsy pulmonary nodules. The 2 most common ways to biopsy pulmonary nodules are transthoracic biopsy (stick needle into your chest using CT images to guide positioning) and transbronchoscopic biopsy (insert flexible tube with camera into mouth or nose down windpipe and into airways of lungs). The first approach is better for peripherally located nodules; the latter approach is better for centrally located nodules.
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