The pressure drop caused by convective effects is the standard clinic method for diagnosis of aortic stenosis using simplified Bernoulli. However simplified Bernoulli results in a reported overestimation that can be resolved with 4D-flow MRI and Simplified Advective Work-energy relative pressure (SAW). This work further refines SAW formulation and proposes an enhanced analysis of the positive and negative components of flow profile. Whereas forward SAW pressure drop correlates better with mean SB (R2=0.951) than full velocity profile by SAW (R2=0.901), backward SAW is totally independent of SB (R2=0.490), which makes the flow efficiency a potential predictive value for disease progression.
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