A method to plan at least one examination of an examination subject with at least one medical imaging apparatus by means of a planning unit, includes the following steps. The planning unit is connected with the at least one medical imaging apparatus. At least one input parameter of a database of the planning unit and at least one input parameter of a database of a subset of the at least one medical imaging apparatus are detected. The database of the planning unit and the database of the subset of the at least one medical imaging apparatus are filtered depending on the at least one detected input parameter. At least one item of output information is determined that includes a selection from medical imaging apparatuses available for the examination of the examination subject.
