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Medical imaging in Melbourne's west, VIC

Melbourne's west covers 83 suburbs with accredited imaging, and 50 practices between them.

The accredited coverage here is x-ray at 50 sites, ultrasound at 49 sites, CT at 44 sites, MRI at 14 sites, nuclear medicine at 7 sites and PET at 1 site.

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.

Seven practices in Melbourne's west 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 Werribee, with ten practices. Radiology Imaging Solutions - Altona is accredited for x-ray and ultrasound; Capital Radiology Altona North covers x-ray, ultrasound and CT; Lake Imaging Bacchus Marsh Hospital runs x-ray, ultrasound and CT.

They are spread through Altona, Altona North, Bacchus Marsh, Cairnlea, Caroline Springs, Derrimut, Drysdale, Footscray, Gisborne and Hillside, and 14 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.

Start with your own suburb below — the distance that matters is the one from where you live.

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 Melbourne's west

Every practice in the district

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