Broncus Technologies (Mountain View, CA) has installed its first “LungPoint” system at the John Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix.  It is a computer-assisted imaging-guidance device that allows a physician to examine the airways of a patient suffering from, say, emphysema.  In a way, it resembles GPS navigators for direction-finding in cars.  “Turn right in 300 feet.”  With LungPoint, however, the objective is to evaluate the lungs without more invasive procedures.  MORE