[en] The influence of the annealing temperature on deuterium retention was studied for self-ion damaged tungsten in the range from 600–1200 K. Samples were damaged by 20 MeV W ions at room temperature to the peak damage level of 0.5 dpa. Samples were then annealed at the desired temperature for 1 h and exposed to deuterium atom beam with the flux of $2.6\times <!--\; ??\; -->{10}^{19}\mathrm{D}/{\mathrm{m}}^2\mathrm{s}$ for 144 h to populate the remaining defects. An unannealed sample was also used as a reference. Nuclear reaction analysis technique was used for deuterium depth profile analysis and thermal desorption was performed on the same samples to measure the amount of total retained D. Scanning transmission electron microscopy was used for the calculation of dislocation densities in the samples. After annealing at 1200 K approximately 66% of those initial defects which retain deuterium were annealed. (paper)