PET near Atherton, QLD

Atherton has no PET of its own. The nearest one is at Queensland X-Ray Westcourt in Westcourt, about 47 km away, roughly 78 minutes by road. After that, the options are Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department in Cairns (50 km).

What Atherton does have locally is x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI. If your referral is for one of those, you do not need to leave town — see everything Atherton has.

To put 47 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 211 are further than Atherton from a PET service. It is a real trip, and worth planning as one.

Queensland has 37 PET practices in total, 23 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Atherton is where it is.

Current Medicare accreditation runs: Queensland X-Ray Westcourt to 30 June 2027 and Cairns Hospital/Medical Imaging Department to 31 October 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the two practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and one lists opening hours. A phone call before you travel is worth it: a practice can be accredited for a scan and still not run it daily.