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However, due to the physical limitations of the array aperture, the spatial resolution after conventional beamforming is often limited by the fat main lobe and the high sidelobes. Here, we propose a method originated from computer vision deblurring based on deep learning to enhance the spatial resolution of beamformed images. The effect of image blurring after conventional beamforming can be considered a convolution of beam pattern, which acts as a point spread function (PSF), and the original spatial intensity distributions of incident plane waves. A modified U-Net-like network is trained on a simulated dataset. The instantaneous acoustic complex amplitude is assumed following circular complex Gaussian random (CCGR) statistics. Both synthetic data and experimental data collected from the South China Sea Experiment in 2021 are used to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach, showing a maximum 700% reduction in a 3 dB width over conventional beamforming. A lower normalized mean square error (NMSE) is provided compared with other deconvolution-based algorithms, such as the Richardson\u2013Lucy algorithm and the approximate likelihood model-based deconvolution algorithm. 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