Patent ID: 8758254

Claim:
An ultrasound probe diagnosing apparatus which diagnoses an ultrasound probe, of a plurality of ultrasound probes, which is set as a diagnosis target, comprising: a measuring part which measures an amplitude, a center frequency, and a bandwidth of a reflected ultrasound signal received from a test object by the ultrasound probe set as the diagnosis target; a part which obtains a variation degree of each of the measured amplitudes, center frequencies, and bandwidths; and a determining part which compares the measured amplitude, center frequency, and bandwidth with corresponding ones of amplitude reference values, center frequency reference values, and bandwidth reference values, compares the obtained variation degrees of the measured amplitudes, center frequencies, and bandwidths with an amplitude-variation reference degree, a center-frequency-variation reference degree, and a bandwidth-variation reference degree, respectively, and determines whether the ultrasound probe set as the diagnosis target is normal, based on the comparison results.