Importing an Image

Just wondering, is there any way to easily import a small image (I.E. a 100 by 100 pixel pict or bmp file) into a max table where there would be three dimensional data on the RGB values in the table?

I see the fpic only reads and displays. I've never used jitter yet, but that doesn't seem to be much of an option as well. Just wondering if there was something, or would I have to do the hefty work myself.