The invention discloses a multichannel synchronous real-time digitalized photoacoustic imaging device and method. The multichannel synchronous real-time digitalized photoacoustic imaging device comprises a
laser, a multi-element ultrasonic
detector, a front amplification circuit and a data
imaging processing unit, wherein the data
imaging processing unit comprises a plurality of
field programmable gate array (FPGA) acquisition cards, a
clock synchronous board card, a programmable
communication interface (PCI) extensions for
instrumentation express (PXIe) backboard and a
central processing unit (CPU) board card, and can be used for realizing acquisition
processing for at least 32 paths of synchronous photoacoustic signals. The multichannel synchronous real-time digitalized photoacoustic imaging method comprises the following steps that: the multi-element ultrasonic
detector receives the photoacoustic signals produced by
laser irradiation on a
biological tissue, amplifies the photoacoustic signals and respectively transmits the signals to the FPGA acquisition cards; and each FPGA acquisition card performs preprocessing,
deconvolution,
continuous wavelet transformation and photoacoustic attenuation compensation on the signals, then transmits the signals to another FPGA acquisition card in a peer-to-peer (P2P) manner, performs
imaging processing by adopting a 2-D (two-dimensional)
filtration back-projection
algorithm, and finally transmits the structure to an upper computer. The method is finished on an FPGA processor; according to a
modular design, the expansion of the large-scale
detector is simplified; and the device and the method are favorable for clinical application of photoacoustic imaging systems.