Systems and methods for profile-based scanning

A method, comprising:

• receiving an indication of clinical context for a scan of a patient;
• selecting a profile associated with the indication of the clinical context;
• determining one or more patient attributes;
• automatically retrieving one or more sub-profiles linked to the profile, from a plurality of sub-profiles in a sub-profile database, based on the one or more patient attributes, wherein each sub-profile includes at least one scan setting that relates to the sub-profile;
• performing the scan of the patient according to acquisition settings prescribed by the one or more sub-profiles;
• and
• reconstructing an image from projection data acquired during the scan according to reconstruction settings prescribed by the one or more sub-profiles.

A system, comprising:

• an x-ray source that emits a beam of x-rays towards a subject to be imaged;
• a detector that receives the x-rays attenuated by the subject;
• a data acquisition system (DAS) operably connected to the detector;
• and
• a computing device operably connected to the DAS and configured with executable instructions in non-transitory memory that when executed cause the computing device to:
• select a profile, from a plurality of profiles in a profile database, based on an indication of clinical context for a scan of the subject;
• automatically retrieve one or more sub-profiles linked to the profile, from a plurality of sub-profiles in at least one sub-profile database, based on the profile and attributes of the subject, including a sub-profile from each of a plurality of radiation dose profiles, a plurality of acquisition profiles, a plurality of contrast profiles, a plurality of reconstruction profiles, and a plurality of reformat profiles, wherein each sub-profile includes at least one scan setting that relates to the sub-profile;
• select imaging settings for the scan based on the profile and the one or more sub-profiles;
• and
• perform the scan with the x-ray source and the detector according to the selected imaging settings.