PET in Australia

132 imaging practices in Australia are accredited for PET and take referred patients. 50 of them are outside a capital city.

A PET scan is the scarcest scan in Australia — the scanners sit almost entirely in capital cities and a handful of large regional hospitals.

Coverage by state: 42 in New South Wales, 37 in Queensland, 23 in Victoria, 14 in Western Australia, 6 in South Australia, 6 in Australian Capital Territory, 3 in Tasmania and 1 in Northern Territory.

Every scan needs a referral, and the practice — not the patient — is what determines whether Medicare eligibility applies. Pick your state below, then your town, for the nearest machine and how far it is.

On our count, 216 towns with imaging of their own have no PET at all. Those towns are where the distance matters most, and each has a page giving the nearest machine measured from there rather than from the nearest capital.