PET near Charters Towers, QLD

There is no PET scanner in Charters Towers. The nearest one is at The Townsville Hospital/Radiology Dept in Douglas, about 99 km away, roughly 1 hr 38 min by road. After that, the options are Queensland X-Ray Mater Hyde Park in Hyde Park (105 km).

Locally, Charters Towers is covered for x-ray, ultrasound and CT. A referral for one of those can be done here: everything Charters Towers has.

To put 99 km in context: of the 1062 QLD towns we hold, 124 are further than Charters Towers 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 Charters Towers is where it is.

Accreditation windows: The Townsville Hospital/Radiology Dept to 30 September 2026 and Queensland X-Ray Mater Hyde Park to 30 June 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.