This invention relates to the field of
fluorescence lifetime imaging, and discloses a wide-field
fluorescence lifetime imaging
system and method based on a
streak camera. The
system includes an excitation source, a wide-field excitation module, a
synchronous detection module, and a synchronous matching module. The wide-field excitation module is positioned along the transmission path of a
pulsed laser. The
synchronous detection module includes a collection and
beam splitting component, a reference camera, and a
streak camera component. The input end of the collection and
beam splitting component receives the
fluorescence beam emitted by the sample, and the output end of the component splits the fluorescence beam into a first detection
optical path and a second detection
optical path. The reference camera is positioned in the first detection
optical path, and the
streak camera component is positioned in the second detection optical path. The synchronous matching module is electrically connected to the excitation source, the reference camera, and the streak camera component, respectively. This invention avoids the complex optical encoding scheme and resulting fluorescence
photon loss problems of traditional DMD systems, and eliminates the need for complex reconstruction algorithms, thus improving imaging efficiency.