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I think the problem with trying to determine radiation fluence is that a lot of the dots appearing are likely due to damage to the detector elements, rather than instantaneous detections.

I've seen CCTV used to monitor high radiation areas and the images are always riddled with artifacts from damaged sensor elements, even when no radiation is present. They have to replace the cameras on a regular basis.




I tried using a cheap webcam CCD to make a true RNG a while back, but I had the same problem. After a while I got permanent damaged elements and it ruined the randomness.

http://pics.brizzly.com/1P3J.jpg




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