PET near Castlemaine, VIC

Castlemaine has no PET of its own. The closest is Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine, 36 km away in Bendigo — about 36 minutes in the car. After that, the options are Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat in Ballarat (64 km) and Northern Health (Northern Imaging Victoria) — Epping in Epping (96 km).

There are 22 PET practices within 200 km of Castlemaine altogether — the five listed are simply the nearest.

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

For scale, 261 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from PET than Castlemaine does.

Victoria has 23 PET practices in total, 5 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Castlemaine is where it is.

The register has these accreditations running to: Bendigo Radiology Nuclear Medicine to 31 July 2027, Lake Imaging St John of God Hospital Ballarat to 31 July 2027 and Northern Health (Northern Imaging Victoria) — Epping to 30 November 2026. 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.