 The use of computed tomography CT screening has allowed for early detection of lung cancers as small as 5mm in diameter. Early stage cancers are highly curable with a reported survival of greater than 90 over 5 years after surgical resection. Before a patient can have surgery, a biopsy must be performed. One common method is a transthoracic needle biopsy TTNB. In this procedure, a CT-image is used to locate the area for biopsy. Once identified, the radiologist applies a local anesthetic and inserts an aspiration needle through the ribs, and into the lung tissue. The sampled lung tissue is then sent to pathology. Although this procedure has a diagnostic yield ranging between 70 and 85, it is associated with serious complications such as pneumothorax, hemoptysis, infection, hemothorax, air embolism and there is about a 20 range 9-54 incidence of pneumothorax, or air leak from the lung, requiring chest tube drainage. Additionally, about 5-15 of cases experience hemoptysis, or coughing blood, although significant life-threatening hemoptysis is only present in less than 1 of patients. When these complications occur, hospitalization as inpatients is required, with an average length of stay of 1-3 days. 