Systems and methods for guided selection of acquisition parameters for medical imaging

A medical imaging system comprising:

• an acquisition unit comprising one or more processors and a computed tomography (CT) detector configured to collect medical imaging data based on a scan prescription;
• and
• a processing unit comprising one or more processors operably coupled to the acquisition unit, the processing unit configured to:
• receive a clinical identifier, an acquisition condition target, and one or more patient characteristics;
• generate a scan attribute based on the clinical identifier, wherein the scan attribute corresponds to a characteristic of a resultant medical image;
• determine select scan settings from the plurality of scan settings based on the scan attribute and the one or more patient characteristics;
• calculate candidate acquisition conditions associated with the select scan settings;
• and
• identify one of the select scan settings as a scan prescription based on a relation between the candidate acquisition conditions and the acquisition condition target.

A tangible and non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more computer software modules configured to direct one or more processors to:

• receive a clinical identifier, an acquisition condition target, and one or more patient characteristics;
• generate a scan attribute based on the clinical identifier, wherein the scan attribute corresponds to a characteristic of a resultant medical image;
• determine select scan settings from the plurality of scan settings based on the scan attribute and the one or more patient characteristics;
• calculate candidate acquisition conditions associated with the select scan settings;
• and
• identify one of the select scan settings as a scan prescription based on a relation between the candidate acquisition conditions and the acquisition condition target.