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Medical imaging in bayside Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula, VIC

bayside Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula covers 80 suburbs with accredited imaging, and 33 practices between them.

The accredited coverage here is x-ray at 29 sites, ultrasound at 31 sites, CT at 23 sites, MRI at 14 sites, nuclear medicine at 8 sites and PET at 2 sites.

The scarcest scans here are PET — if your referral is for one of those, check the suburb page before you drive, because the nearest machine may be in a different suburb from the rest of your care.

Eight practices in bayside Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list, so a Medicare rebate is possible for an MRI there. Any other MRI unit in the region is accredited but not on that list.

The best-served suburb here is Frankston, with seven practices. I-MED Radiology Bentleigh East is accredited for x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI and nuclear medicine; Monash Health (Monash Imaging, Moorabbin Hospital) covers x-ray, ultrasound, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and PET; Marina Radiology Chelsea Heights runs MRI.

You will find them in Bentleigh East, Chelsea Heights, Cheltenham, Clayton, Frankston, Frankston South, Hampton, Hampton East, Heatherton and Highett, and seven other places.

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

Each suburb below has its own page, with the distances measured from there rather than from the middle of the district.

scanfinder shows you where imaging is available. Your doctor decides which scan you need — you'll need a referral for all of these.

Suburbs in bayside Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula

Every practice in the district

Want to see imaging across bayside Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula on a map, with distances from your own address? Open the scanfinder map — it holds every accredited imaging site in the country.