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Why was my nuclear stress test different from my echo

I was having random cheat pains so the Dr had me do a nuclear stress test everything looked good besides a lvef of 45 percent ,at my follow up Dr said sometimes these aren't accurate so he had me do a echocardiogram those results were lvef of 65 to 70 percent why would there be a big difference?
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