Now Indian-based companies are moving into an wider range of services: reading CT-scans and X-rays, processing legal documents and helping with animation.

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Another important diamond is an un-mounted 18.88-ct.

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He seemed to have developed an infection, but our X-rays and CT scans failed to turn up a source.

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As an example, consider MRI and CT scanners: high-tech, high-cost medical imaging equipment that enable much more accurate diagnoses and treatment planning.

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Miller of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and her colleagues looked at 291 patients who were scheduled for an angiogram but also had a 64-slice CT scan.

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At this time, Thomas says, the Cleveland Clinic's heart surgeons are unlikely to accept a CT angiogram over the old-fashioned, invasive kind as a roadmap for an operation.

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An X-ray showed that he had pneumonia, and a CT scan revealed something even scarier: His right lung was filled with a thick, gelatinous fluid.

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The technique can provide excellent, detailed images of the body's soft tissue and is an alternative to using X-ray techniques such as computed tomography (CT).

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"You can have a patient from the hospital with abdominal pain as an example, and you can run him through every high-tech equipment, CT scan, MRIs -- it's unlimited, " Zelt said.

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