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Inelastic 16 O + 16 O scattering at E lab = 250, 350, 704, and 1120 MeV for the transitions to the lowest 2 + and 3 − states in the 16 O nucleus have been analyzed within the coupled-channels mechanism by using the semimicroscopic optical potential and inelastic form factor given by the phenomenological squared Woods-Saxon potential, the full cluster potential, and the M3Y NN effective interaction without density dependence. The obtained real potentials, in conjunction with the phenomenological squared Woods-Saxon imaginary potential, provide a satisfactory agreement with the experimental data for the elastic-and inelastic-scattering angular distributions. The deformation length and the intrinsic quadrupole (Q 20 ) and octupole (Q 30 ) moment values were extracted and were compared with the electromagnetic measurement values and those obtained from previous studies.