Matrix formula for intraocular lens power calculation.

The matrix calculation was applied to Gaussian optics. Matrices were defined for a single diopter, a lens, an association of two centered systems having the same axis when the origins are taken at the vertices of the first and last refracting surfaces. The matrix formula then was used to calculate the power of the emmetropizing lens implant, and its results compared with the ones obtained by five other formulas.