PET near Ararat, VIC

No practice in Ararat is accredited for PET. The nearest one is at Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat, about 87 km away, roughly 72 minutes by road. After that, the options are Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine in Bendigo (134 km) and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong in Geelong (158 km).

There are 17 PET practices within 200 km of Ararat altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

Ararat is not without imaging — x-ray, ultrasound and CT are available in town. The town page lists everything Ararat has.

For scale, 143 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from PET than Ararat does.

Across Victoria, 23 practices are accredited for PET and 5 of those are outside the capital. That is the arithmetic behind the distance above — PET is not spread evenly, and Ararat sits in one of the gaps.

The register has these accreditations running to: Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027, Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine to 31 July 2027 and Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Geelong to 31 July 2027. We drop a modality the day its accreditation lapses, so if it is listed above it is current.

Of the five practices listed, all publish a phone number, all have a website and three list 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.