Review Article

Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen as Target for Neuroimaging of Central Nervous System Tumors

Table 6

Summary of PSMA-targeted imaging in meningiomas.

AuthorsYearPSMA tracerMain results

Bilgin et al.2016168Ga-PSMA(i) High 68Ga-PSMA uptake in brain lesion (SUVmax 3.1), diagnosed as meningioma on MRI
Jain et al.2017168Ga-PSMA(i) Avid 68Ga-PSMA uptake in meningioma (SUVmax 1.9) but no FDG avidity
Sasikumar et al.2017168Ga-PSMA(i) Stronger 68Ga-PSMA uptake (SUVmax 14.6, TBR 29.2) than FDG (SUVmax 6.44, TBR 0.74)
(ii) Meningioma diagnosis confirmed by pathology
Gupta et al.2020168Ga-PSMA(i) Avid 68Ga-PSMA uptake, diagnosis confirmed by MRI
Courtney et al.2021168Ga-PSMA(i) 68Ga-PSMA uptake demonstrated in a meningioma
Junqueira et al.2021168Ga-PSMA(i) Strong 68Ga-PSMA uptake demonstrated in an intraventricular meningioma (SUVmax 12.1)
Calabria et al.2017164Cu-PSMA(i) 64Cu-PSMA uptake in MRI-confirmed meningioma was SUVmax 3.8 at 1 h postinjection, 3.9 at 4 h postinjection
Haemels et al.2020118F-PSMA(i) Moderately avid 18F-PSMA uptake in pathology-confirmed meningioma