Abstract: An imaging system is presented for imaging a region of interest. The system includes an imaging arrangement having diffraction limited resolution. The imaging arrangement includes a spatial light encoder scattering medium) which applies spatial encoding patterns to coherent light and provides encoded illuminations of the region of interest located behind the encoder to create encoded diffraction limited images on a detector array. A position controller is provided which sequentially provides relative displacements between the coherent light path and the region of interest, resulting in a plurality of M laterally displaced encoded illuminations in a region of interest plane, to displaced by ?x (and/or ?x) between them such that they are characterized by substantially constant appearances of the encoded structure of the coherent light field.