MRI near Woodend, VIC

There is no MRI scanner in Woodend. The nearest one is at Matrix Medical Imaging Gisborne in Gisborne, about 16 km away, roughly 17 minutes by road. After that, the options are Lake Imaging Sunbury in Sunbury (30 km) and Lake Imaging Melton in Melton (37 km).

132 practices within 200 km of Woodend are accredited for MRI in total; the five above are the closest by straight-line distance from the centre of town.

The eligible ones are Matrix Medical Imaging Gisborne and Kilmore MRI & Specialist Centre (Radskill Imaging Group) — they appear on the Government's Medicare-eligible MRI list (last updated 17 February 2026). Lake Imaging Sunbury, Lake Imaging Melton and Capital Radiology Sydenham run an accredited MRI unit that is not on the list, so ask what an MRI there would cost you.

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

For scale, 232 of the 850 towns we hold in VIC sit further from MRI than Woodend does.

Victoria has 140 MRI practices in total, 40 of them outside the capital. The machines cluster where the population is, which is why the nearest one to Woodend is where it is.

Accreditation windows: Matrix Medical Imaging Gisborne to 31 October 2027, Lake Imaging Sunbury to 30 November 2027 and Lake Imaging Melton to 30 November 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.