MRI services provider Smart Choice MRI has appointed Roland Wikstrom as president and chief operating officer, and it also announced plans to expand beyond the Midwest.
Wikstrom comes to the newly created position after serving on Smart Choice MRI's board for two years. He has more than 25 years of senior leadership experience at companies such as Citigroup, the central bank of Norway, and BMO Harris Bank, Smart Choice said.
In related news, the company said it plans to expand outside of the Midwest in 2017. Smart Choice, which offers MRI scans for an all-inclusive fee of $600 or less, will also have 19 clinics operating in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota by the end of this year.
Smart Choice said it has raised $14.5 million in capital to support its growth plans in Illinois, Minnesota, and elsewhere in the U.S. The financing was provided primarily by Wisconsin healthcare system ThedaCare and Edward-Elmhurst Health of Naperville, IL.
![Overview of the study design. (A) The fully automated deep learning framework was developed to estimate body composition (BC) (defined as subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT] in liters; visceral adipose tissue [VAT] in liters; skeletal muscle [SM] in liters; SM fat fraction [SMFF] as a percentage; and intramuscular adipose tissue [IMAT] in deciliters) from MRI. The fully automated framework comprised one model (model 1) to quantify different BC measures (SAT, VAT, SM, SMFF, and IMAT) as three-dimensional (3D) measures from whole-body MRI scans. The second model (model 2) was trained to identify standardized anatomic landmarks along the craniocaudal body axis (z coordinate field), which allowed for subdividing the whole-body measures into different subregions typically examined on clinical routine MRI scans (chest, abdomen, and pelvis). (B) BC was quantified from whole-body MRI in over 66,000 individuals from two large population-based cohort studies, the UK Biobank (UKB) (36,317 individuals) and the German National Cohort (NAKO) (30,291 individuals). Bar graphs show age distribution by sex and cohort. BMI = body mass index. (C) After the performance assessment of the fully automated framework, the change in BC measures, distributions, and profiles across age decades were investigated. Age-, sex-, and height-adjusted body composition reference curves were calculated and made publicly available in a web-based z-score calculator (https://circ-ml.github.io).](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/05/body-comp.XgAjTfPj1W.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)